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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o...	Vera Brittain		popular novels	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o...	Vera Brittain		Household Medicine	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o...	Vera Brittain		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o...	Vera Brittain	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o...	Vera Brittain	George Eliot	Adam Bede	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching i...	Vera Brittain		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'During Preparation one wild autumn evening in St Monica's gymnasium, when the wind shook the unsubstantial walls and ...	Vera Brittain	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Adonais	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Had I realised when I read it that its author was even then portentously engaged in rallying the anti-suffrage forces...	Vera Brittain	Mary Ward	Robert Elsmere	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as ...	Vera Brittain	Olive Schreiner	Woman and Labour	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yet when the War broke out, I did not clearly understand what was meant by homosexuality, incest or sodomy, and was p...	Vera Brittain	Oscar Wilde	plays	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'My desultory and totally unorganised reading of George Eliot, Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Carlyle, Emerson and Merejkowsk...	Vera Brittain	George Eliot	Romola	Unknown
	1900-1945	'During the next few weeks I spent a good many troubled, speculative, exciting hours with the little volume clasped in...	Vera Brittain	Olive Schreiner	The Story of an African Farm	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In spite of my vague memories of the South African campaigns, Spion Kop and Magersfontein were hardly more real to me...	Vera Brittain	Andrew Lang	Andrew Lang's Fairy Books	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:'	Vera Brittain	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Perhaps, I thought, Wordsworth or Browning or Shelley would have some consolation to offer; all through the War poetr...	Vera Brittain	William Wordsworth	poetry	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The spasmodic study of Plato, whose "Apologia" and "Meno" I was reading for Pass Mods., certainly did nothing to disc...	Vera Brittain	Plato	'Apologia' and 'Meno'	Unknown
	1900-1945	'I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the de...	Vera Brittain	William Wordsworth	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'By way of compensating him for my heretical indifference to the loveliness of Greek - a loveliness that came back to ...	Vera Brittain		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Together Edward and I looked at "The Times History of the War", picked out a newspaper paragraph stating that the tot...	Vera Brittain	various	The Times History of the War	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'To console myself, I concluded, I had been re-reading one of our favourite fragments from W. E. Henley's "Bric-a-Brac":	Vera Brittain	W. E. Henley	Bric-a-Brac	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sometimes when I think ... of the Dream-city, with its grey towers and autumn sunsets, and the little room where sur...	Vera Brittain	Thomas Hardy	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Print: Book, Unknown
	1900-1945	'After following the progress of the new Allied expedition to Salonika, and studying with mixed feelings the competiti...	Vera Brittain		The Times	Print: Newspaper, Unknown
	1900-1945	'Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mys...	Vera Brittain	Johan August Strindberg	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'In my wooden hut, by means of a folding card-table and a remnant of black satin for tablecloth, I made a small shrine...	Vera Brittain	Robert Hugh Benson	Vexilla Regis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Although, during those noisy, monotonous weeks, I had at last time to read the newspapers, with their perturbing acco...	Vera Brittain		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'A boy thrust a "Star" into my hand, and, shivering with cold in the hot sunshine, I made myself read it.'	Vera Brittain		the 'Star' newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'The leisurely life on this surgical block left plenty of time for reading the various newspapers sent to me from Engl...	Vera Brittain		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intent...	Vera Brittain	John Masefield	Gallipoli	Print: Serial / periodical, magazines
	1900-1945	'A verse from Thomas Hardy's "In time of the Breaking of Nations" floated into my mind from the volume of his poems th...	Vera Brittain	Thomas Hardy	In Time of the Breaking of Nations	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, d...	Vera Brittain	Gilbert Frankau	The City of Fear	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The magazines, when more demanding than the "Tatler", still belonged to the Conservative variety, such as the weekly ...	Vera Brittain		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Only a short time ago, sitting in the elegant offices of the British Red Cross Society in Grosvenor Crescent, I read ...	Vera Brittain		Report by the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John	Print: official report
	1900-1945	'Not long afterwards I was reminded of this conversation by some lines from E. A. Mackintosh's "Cha Till Maccruimein,"...	Vera Brittain	E.A. Mackintosh	Cha Till Maccruimein	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'For a day or two after the raid I felt curiously lighthearted; like the hero of Hugh Walpole's "The Dark Forest" - on...	Vera Brittain	Hugh Walpole	The Dark Forest	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Still sore and indignant, I happened one day to read some verses by Sir Owen Seaman which I found in a copy of "Punch...	Vera Brittain	Owen Seaman	The Soul of a Nation	Print: Serial / periodical, magazine
	1900-1945	'I was no better reconciled to staying at home when I read in "The Times" a few weeks after my return that the persist...	Vera Brittain		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'On Sunday morning, June 16th, I opened the "Observer", which appeared to be chiefly concerned with the new offensive ...	Vera Brittain		The Observer	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'There followed a quotation from the correspondent of the Corriere della Sera, who described "the Austrian attack on t...	Vera Brittain		The Observer	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'For years I continued to detest the founder of modern nursing and all that she stood for - a state of mind which pers...	Vera Brittain	Florence Nightingale	Cassandra	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Mill on "Liberty...	Vera Brittain	Thomas Hobbes	Leviathan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Are Vinagradoff on "The Growth of the Manor" and J. H. Round on "Scutage" still the authorities for this remote and d...	Vera Brittain	Vinagradoff	The Growth of the Manor	Print: Book, Unknown
	1900-1945	'Staying for a fortnight with Miss Heath Jones in Cornwall - where I read aloud to her a large selection of the works ...	Vera Brittain	George Bernard Shaw	Back to Methuselah	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled "The Evol...	Vera Brittain	unknown	The Evolution of World Peace	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'John Buchan was there, brisk and unpretentious, and the bluff and cordial Hugh Walpole, over whose new novel, "The Ca...	Vera Brittain	Hugh Walpole	The Cathedral	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'But at least, through my work at Oxford and my subsequent reading of F. S. Marvin and Gilbert Murray and H. G. Wells,...	Vera Brittain	F.S. Marvin	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'We returned to England to read, in an evening newspaper bought at Folkestone, of the death of Lord Northcliffe, but a...	Vera Brittain		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Times" is exciting itself over the surplus women, as revealed by the census - 102 per 1,000, I believe, to be ex...	Vera Brittain		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'It was at this meeting, where she was one of the speakers, that I first saw Rebecca West, whose novel "The Judge", wh...	Vera Brittain	Rebecca West	The Judge	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.'	Vera Brittain	W.N.P. Barbellion	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My first vague realisation that poverty was the result of humanity's incompetence, and not an inviolable law of natur...	Vera Brittain	Thomas Carlyle	Past and Present	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'So I turned, as often, for help and advice to Mrs.Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte", which Winifred and I had read...	Vera Brittain	Elizabeth Gaskell	Life of Charlotte Bronte	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In a short vignette called "Harking Back to Long Ago", Winifred describes how she and Grace, aged four and six and a ...	Vera Brittain	Winifred Holtby	Harking Back to Long Ago	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Just after leaving school, I had been plunged into the same tumult of agonised inquiry by reading Mrs. Humphry Ward's...	Vera Brittain	Mary Ward	Robert Elsmere	Print: Book, Unknown
	1900-1945	'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner a...	Vera Brittain	Olive Schreiner	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'But it was in a "Good Housekeeping" article on "How to Enjoy Bad Health" that she quoted the remarks with which he pr...	Vera Brittain	Winifred Holtby	Good Housekeeping magazine "How to Enjoy Bad Health"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I stayed behind in the waiting-room, reading a favourable review in "Punch" of Phyllis Bentley's newly published nove...	Vera Brittain		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In some respects this little work of criticism is the profoundest of Winifred's books.'	Vera Brittain	Winifred Holtby	Virginia Woolf	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Shortly after we arrived, a writer in "Harper's Magazine" inquired, "Is this a Christian land?" and went on to commen...	Vera Brittain		Harper's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'But in "Current History" for September, Bruce Bliven, an editor of "The New Statesman", ventured upon a prophecy: "An...	Vera Brittain	Bruce Bliven	Current History	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'November brought a peculiar police-court case, which made literary history, after Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well o...	Vera Brittain	Radclyffe Hall	The Well of Loneliness	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Winston Churchill had been Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Baldwin Government of 1924, which now, after five years...	Vera Brittain	Winston Churchill	The Gathering Storm	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had hesitated, knowing that "The New Statesman" and "The Week-end Review" regarded each other as rivals; two days l...	Vera Brittain	Storm Jameson	No Time Like the Present	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public t...	Vera Brittain	Raymond Swing	Harper's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Not until I read the fictitious account of this consultation four years afterwards in "South Riding" did I realise th...	Vera Brittain	Winifred Holtby	South Riding	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Phyliis's novel, "Inheritance", had become the fiction-star of that spring.'	Vera Brittain	Phyllis Bentley	Inheritance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After reading these books, I began to ask: "Why should these young men have the war to themselves? Didn't women have...	Vera Brittain		[books on war topics]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My diary for October 5th, 1932, recorded the impression made upon me by the writer whose "Modern Utopia" had been a b...	Vera Brittain	Herbert George Wells	Modern Utopia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As he left Frankfort the passengers in the train were discussing the break-up of the Disarmament Conference, and in L...	Vera Brittain		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"We face a choice of evils," H. N. Brailsford had written in "The New Clarion" after the break-up of the Disarmament ...	Vera Brittain	H. N. Brailsford	The New Clarion	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Shortly afterwards Victor Gollancz issued a pamphlet, entitled "Fascists at Olympia", which contained statements from...	Vera Brittain	anon	Fascists at Olympia
	1900-1945	'Only recently I discovered its origin in Longfellow's "New England Tragedies", read and re-read during my childhood w...	Vera Brittain	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	New England Tragedies	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At the time of her death I had read only part of "South Riding", which was to bring her back to me, and I found no re...	Vera Brittain	Winifred Holtby	South Riding	Print: typescript
	1900-1945	'They could no more accept it than they or any other powerful nation had ever accepted the teaching of his Master and ...	Vera Brittain	Herbert George Wells	The Outline of History	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Whether this contains evidence of any particular reading experience is unclear] 'Presumably these writers had neve...	Vera Brittain	Julien Benda	La Trahison des Clercs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Under the caption "Pacifist Beats Churchill in Glasgow U. Election", it told me that on the previous day Dick Sheppar...	Vera Brittain		Article entitled "Pacifist Beats Churchill in Glasgow U. Election", in the Chicago Sunday Tribune (24 October 1937)	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'At a P.E.N. dinner I sat beside him, and questioned him about the "lighted door" in his novel "Guy and Pauline".'	Vera Brittain	Compton Mackenzie	Guy and Pauline	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Years afterwards, I was to discover the "Declaration of the Independence of the Mind" issued to his fellow brain-work...	Vera Brittain	Romain Rolland	Declaration of the Independence of the Mind	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from...	Vera Brittain	Marie Tempest	[letter published in the "Sunday "Times"]	Print: Newspaper, Unknown
	1900-1945	'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from...	Vera Brittain	Marie Tempest	[Letter published in the "Sunday Times"]	Print: Newspaper, Unknown
	1900-1945	'In a lecture at Friends' House he spoke of a new Blitzkrieg timed to start on May 1st, and designed to overthrow Engl...	Vera Brittain	Oswald Garrison Villard	Inside Germany	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Main page reviews in the "Observer", "Reynolds News" and the "Sunday Chronicle", and a warm tribute in the "Yorkshire...	Vera Brittain		Reviews in the "Observer," "Reynold's News," "Sunday Chronicle," "Yorkshire Post" and "TLS."	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'That night three calls from newspaper offices were put through to my bedroom; next morning the front page of "Il Seco...	Vera Brittain		Il Secolo	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Later I sent my mother a clipping from the Louisville "Courier-Journal", whose woman reporter had been present.'	Vera Brittain		Courier-Journal	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Among 200 reviews and notices, another clipping from the "Yorkshire Post" remarked on the astonishing persistence wit...	Vera Brittain		Yorkshire Post	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Into my mind flashed the "New York Times" headlines which I had read over breakfast that morning.'	Vera Brittain		New York Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'In a 'Yorkshire Post' article he subsequently described his three days on Willkie's campaign train, with its eleven c...	Vera Brittain		Yorkshire Post	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Two days afterwards I wrote to Clare during an air raid, enclosing a paragraph about her parents from the "Star Man's...	Vera Brittain		"Star Man's Diary"	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'She preferred to say - in words written ten years ago at the end of "The Waves" which might stand for her epitaph - "...	Vera Brittain	Virginia Woolf	The Waves	Print: Book, Unknown
	1900-1945	'I had not known Thornton Wilder, though I had been among the thousands who read "The Bridge of San Luis Rey".'	Vera Brittain	Thornton Wilder	Bridge of San Luis Rey, The	Print: Book, Unknown
	1900-1945	'"It is an hard matter," wrote John Bunyan in "The Pilgrim's Progress", "to go down into the Valley of Humiliation."'	Vera Brittain	John Bunyan	The Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book, Unknown
	1900-1945	'In the "Evening Standard", Major-General Fuller commented acidly that the gigantic forces being raised in America sug...	Vera Brittain	John Frederick Charles Fuller	article in the "Evening Standard"	Print: Newspaper, Unknown
	1900-1945	'"The censorship here is so close that I depend for most of my information upon "Time" and "Life"," I wrote to New Yor...	Vera Brittain		"Time" Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
	1900-1945	'The weary Press caustically reported a current quip: "Good news at last! Two of our generals were captured at Tobruk...	Vera Brittain	Nathaniel Gubbins	comment in the "Sunday Express"	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'According to R.C.K. Ensor's "Miniature History of the War", "the annihilating raid on Lubeck...and the raid of 1,130 ...	Vera Brittain	Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor	Miniature History of the War	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'His books, "On Two Fronts" and "Letters of a Prisoner", described those early experiences.'	Vera Brittain	Corder Catchpool	On Two Fronts: Letters of a Prisoner.	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Here I read the three-year-old newspapers which described the unusual murder trial, and studied a "background" book, ...	Vera Brittain	Emanuel Miller	The Neuroses in War	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At the end of October, a paragraph by the "Daily Mail" Correspondent in Lisbon "revealed" the peril which she and her...	Vera Brittain		[Report in the "Daily Mail"]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'The "New Statesman" described the exponents of this policy as "Bitterenders"; their high priest was Lord Vansittart, ...	Vera Brittain		New Statesman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In a post-war record entitled "Bomber Offensive", Sir Arthur Harris himself described the ordeal of Hamburg, which ca...	Vera Brittain	Arthur Harris	Bomber Offensive	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"...Women were wandering about half-crazy," stated an account in the Swiss newspaper, "National-Zeitung", and a stoke...	Vera Brittain		National-Zeitung	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'By 1944 Lord Lang, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was supporting the persistent protests of the Bishop of Chich...	Vera Brittain		Evening Standard	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'That autumn a friend sent me a booklet entitled "The Bases of Civilisation", by Dr. G. S. Spinks, one-time editor of ...	Vera Brittain	G. S. Spinks	The Bases of Civilisation	Print: Booklet
	1900-1945	'These included excerpts from the "News Chronicle" and "Manchester Guardian", which reported that a so-called "article...	Vera Brittain		Manchester Guardian	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'My first real understanding of the "terrific sensation" came from an article published in the "Sunday Chronicle" on M...	Vera Brittain	Dorothy Thompson	[article in the "Sunday Chronicle"]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'About the same time a correspondent sent me a copy of "Human Events", issued weekly from Washington by Dr. Felix Morl...	Vera Brittain		Human Events	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In 1943, soon after Britain adopted "obliteration" as a policy, an article in the "Times" reported that "the German h...	Vera Brittain		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'From the United States Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, inspired by the same thought, sent me an article called "Last Ple...	Vera Brittain	Oswald Garrison Villard	Last Plea for Europe	Print: article published in a periodical
	1900-1945	'During the second week of the battle, a Letter reader sent me from that day's Evening News a clipping which contained...	Vera Brittain		Evening News	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Coming up to London on the morning of September 8th, I read with the same happiness as my neighbours a "Daily Express...	Vera Brittain		Daily Express	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'On May 5th the U.S. Forces' newspaper, "The Stars and Stripes", quoted a description by British war prisoners of this...	Vera Brittain		The Stars and Stripes	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'A letter in the "Jewish Chronicle" subsequently assailed Victor for publishing and commending "Above All Nations".'	Vera Brittain		Jewish Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Within the next few days I read a new Gollancz pamphlet, "What Buchenwald Really Means".	Vera Brittain	Victor Gollancz	What Buchenwald Really Means
	1900-1945	'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germ...	Vera Brittain	Victor Gollancz	article in the "Left News"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germ...	Vera Brittain	Victor Gollancz	Article in the "Left News"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by...	Vera Brittain	Thomas Hobbes	Leviathan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	On March 14th the "News Chronicle's" correspondent, S. L. Solon, had called Cologne "End-of-the-World City".'	Vera Brittain	S. L. Solon	Article in the "News Chronicle"	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'To the "Evening Standard" Anne Matheson had contributed a later and similar description of Nuremberg.'	Vera Brittain	Anne Matheson	Article in the "Evening Standard"	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Even George Orwell, who had dismissed "Seed of Chaos" with contempt the previous year, now expressed deep misgivings ...	Vera Brittain	George Orwell	Article in "The Observer"	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'But the real clue had been given by Howard Spring in an unpretentious article which appeared in "St. Martin's Review"...	Vera Brittain	Howard Spring	Article in "St Martin's Review"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'More stimulating was the reading of Somerset Maugham's short novel, "A Christmas Holiday".'	Vera Brittain	Somerset Maugham	A Christmas Holiday	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I recalled Ruskin's words in the Preface to "Sesame and Lilies": "Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain point and ...	Vera Brittain	John Ruskin	Sesame and Lilies	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Several Norwegians spoke critically to me of John Steinbeck's recent novel, "The Moon is Down".'	Vera Brittain	John Steinbeck	The Moon is Down	Print: Book

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