√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's "King of the Gold... | Norman Nicholson | John Ruskin | King of the Golden River | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm... | Norman Nicholson | [unknown] | History of the World War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, in my schooldays, I read H.G. Wells's "Kipps", I recognised it as in some ways a portrait of my father.' | Norman Nicholson | H.G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, a year or two later, we read "Julius Caesar" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it... | Norman Nicholson | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Until then, all the books I possessed had been children's annuals and the like. Except for "Robinson Crusoe", very fe... | Norman Nicholson | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Chimes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, years later, I first read "Lady Chatterley's Lover", I did not feel that I was being liberated into a new frank... | Norman Nicholson | D.H. Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "T... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Sketch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "T... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Woman's Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Maud [and other poems?] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.' | Norman Nicholson | Edgar Allan Poe | [Tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.' | Norman Nicholson | [unknown] | [detective stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.' | Norman Nicholson | H.G. Wells | [early novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After the examination, when we were expected to feel free as hares, we all flopped with reaction. There seemed just n... | Norman Nicholson | H.G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Bernard] Shaw the buffoon, the joker, the iconoclast, appeared day by day in every newspaper like a living comic str... | | [n/a] | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had not heard of "Wind in the Willows" until I read it during the summer holiday of my seventeenth year!' | Norman Nicholson | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and ... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Encyclopedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and ... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | Dictionary of National Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | John Milton | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | John Keats | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Geoffery Chaucer | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Lamb | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Sir Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | William Wordsworth | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Thomas Hardy | [nature and the countryside] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Hudson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Jefferies | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Gilbert White | [natural history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | [unknown] | [books on birds, animals, snakes, trees] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the ... | Basil Nicholson | Andrew Marvell | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the ... | Basil Nicholson | John Keats | [Poems] | Print: Book |