| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Arnold Bennett | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Enoch Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular. | John Buchan | Arnold Bennett | The Man from the North | Manuscript: Sheet, proofs |
| 1900-1945 | . . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Tow... | George Sturt | Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Arnold Bennett | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'And Bennett had now become a man of influence, largely through his "New Age" pieces. These articles, which he had be... | Ford Madox Ford | Arnold Bennett | New Age | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | "He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Honeymoon | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audienc... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Milestones | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bonar Law told him that "his sister had been a very great admirer", but that since this book she had "done with" him.' | Miss Law | Arnold Bennett | Pretty Lady, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...an article of his in the Daily News on 21 November, blaming Liberal leadership, produced from Asquith himself "a p... | Herbert Asquith | Arnold Bennett | article in the 'Daily News' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rug... | Pauline Smith | Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps | Print: Book, proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'Riceyman Steps' had brought him new prestige; it was read by lords and barbers, and Conrad was reported to say that ... | Joseph Conrad | Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Beaverbrook vetted all the politics, finding only two or three small slips in the entire novel, which is a tribute to... | Lord Beaverbrook | Arnold Bennett | Lord Raingo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read in The Bookman your preface to the American edition of ?An Old Wives? Tale.'
| J.B. Pinker | Arnold Bennett | preface to The Old Wives' Tale | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have this day despatched to you in two book packets, a copy of "The Regent". You may take it positively from me th... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Regent, The | Manuscript: manuscript of new novel (typescript?) |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have received your fourth and last article for Austin Harrison, and I have read it with a great deal of enjoyment.'... | J.B. Pinker | Arnold Bennett | Artist and the Public, The | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I ... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It ["The Price of Love"] and ?Sinister Street? were, he told me, the only works of fiction he [Henry James] had read ... | Henry James | Arnold Bennett | Price of Love, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had aske... | Hugh Walpole | Arnold Bennett | 'New Age' articles | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have received some copies of "The Roll Call". They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the qua... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Roll Call | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have received some copies of 'The Roll Call'. They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the qua... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Roll Call | Manuscript: proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'Swinnerton feels sure that C & W would be willing to publish a new edition of "How to become an Author". I gave him ... | Frank Swinnerton | Arnold Bennett | How to Become an Author | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.'
| Algernon Methuen Marshall | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 19 May 1912: 'A. Benett [sic] I've never to this day beheld -- and certain [italics]Ameri... | Henry James | Arnold Bennett | articles | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's health... | Henry James | Arnold Bennett | critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense about the War | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 2nd July
Teddie and I have managed to get up this morning. Here it is 10.30 and we have tidied up washed t... | Gerald Moore | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 5th July
I finished ?Mr Prohack? last night. A fine book but I did not take to Mrs P. nor even to Mr Bennett... | Gerald Moore | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My book reviews find considerable favour. The eclectic Chapman has much encouraged me by the statement that he reads... | Frederic Chapman | Arnold Bennett | reviews | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . I am charmed with a serial of mine now running with great ?clat & Reginald Cleaver?s illustrations, in a sheet ... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . every evening after dinner he read "Whom God Hath Joined" . . . to Agnes and me. [Eleanor Green] I remember obj... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Whom God Hath Joined | Manuscript: or published book? |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is only one trouble about the proofs. That is: the title is wrong. (This not your fault, but some copyist?s.)... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Helen with the High Hand | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Leonard Woolf | Arnold Bennett | An Old Wives Tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The reading of the "Man from the North" has inspired me with the greatest respect for your artistic conscience. I am ... | Joseph Conrad | (Enoch) Arnold Bennett | A Man from the North. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to r... | Joseph Conrad | (Enoch) Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You must think me a brute. I don't even attempt to palliate an inexcusable delay in thanking you for "Leonora".[...] ... | Joseph Conrad | (Enoch) Arnold Bennett | Leonora | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes, including a chronology explaining the ages of the characters: "Samuel born 1833, 29 in 1862/ Constan... | George Otto Trevelyan | Arnold Bennett | The old wives' tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes including dates of reading, e.g.: "July 18 1916 Welcombe"; "March 29 1923 with Anna [i.e. Anna Philips, Georg... | George Otto Trevelyan | Arnold Bennett | These twain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
Many thanks for the book on Methuselahs. ['Some Impressions of my Elders']Shame to say, I’ve only read myself in... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Some Impressions of my Elders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish "Accident" by Arnold Bennett, write up my diary, and so to bed.' | Thomas Kitching | Arnold Bennett | Accident | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'From that far distant day [in 1903] when (you remember?) you sent me "Leonora" it's great fundamental quality of abso... | Joseph Conrad | Arnold Bennett | Leonora | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Francis Pollard | Arnold Bennett | [article on Hardy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am wholly delighted with your "R.[iceyman] S.[teps]. Wholly. You will give me credit for not having missed any spec... | Joseph Conrad | Enoch Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps | Print: Book |