| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Bennett had reservations about the book, he had enjoyed it, and had at once written to tell his friend so'. | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The World of William Clissold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | H.G. Wells | Three Short Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | H.G. Wells | [unknown] | 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 | '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 | 'Sunday 20th June
? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'. | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | Short History of the World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 15th October.
Bought ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? in the Paris edition and the ?New Machiavelli? Benn?s new ... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 20th October.
Rehearsal ? ?Brothers B.?. Did not go to rehearsal but went home to have a quiet evening ... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1st January- Saturday
I have made no New Year resolutions, and so have none to keep.
This might, thus, be an exempl... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '30th January, Sunday.
I had to stay at home today to do my washing for the forthcoming week, and to put the rooms to... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '23rd February, Wednesday.
This evening after dinner, I flitted from the splendour of the ?Grand? to the hospital-col... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The Invisible Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & also to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Time Machine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Cone in 'The Plattner Story and Others' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Invisible Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am writing now because I must?to congratulate you on the short stories on the Pall Mall Magazine, which seem to imp... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | A Story of the Days to Come | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wish I hadn?t read the first part of 'Tono-Bungay' so often. I shall have to read it yet again in order to get the... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Tono Bungay | Print: Book, proofs of novel |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way, Wells?s new novel 'Marriage', of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Marriage | Manuscript: Codex, proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return the proofs. As before, all suggestions are tentative. . . .I should judge it to be rather better thatn Mar... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Passionate Friends | Print: BookManuscript: Codex, proofs of book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like this book very much. ["Mr. Britling Sees It Through"] It is extremely original & sympathetic, & the scenes tha... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Mr Britling Sees It Through | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I send you my affectionate thanks for the book ["The Plattner Story and Others"] and for the terms of the inscription... | Joseph Conrad | H.G. Wells | The Plattner Story and Others | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the vol. Chaffery is immense. The thing as a whole remarkable in its effects.'
Hence follow five more li... | Joseph Conrad | H.G. Wells | Love and Mr Lewisham | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very good number. [New Statesman] The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Soul of a Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The World of William Clissold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave... | Charles Stansfield | H.G. Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave... | Howard R Smith | H.G. Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |