| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | George Macdonald | [probably] Princess and Curdie, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Scarlet Pimpernel, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Edith Nesbit | [probably] Five Children and It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Charles Dickens | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a BBC talk of 1947 about the book that had most influenced her early years, she chose to talk about Rider Haggard'... | Elizabeth Bowen | Henry Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pu... | Elizabeth Bowen | [unknown] | [detective stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poe... | Elizabeth Bowen | [n/a] | Encyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poe... | Elizabeth Bowen | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the F... | Elizabeth Bowen | Stendhal [pseud.] | De l'amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the F... | Elizabeth Bowen | Gustave Flaubert | L'Education Sentimentale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1937 she was having "a heavenly time" reading Montherlant, and writing a piece on him for the "New Statesman".' | Elizabeth Bowen | Henry Millon de Montherlant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories ... | Elizabeth Bowen | Guy de Maupassant | 'Yvette' [and other short stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories ... | Elizabeth Bowen | Marcel Proust | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster... | Elizabeth Bowen | E.M. Forster | Celestial Omnibus, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster... | Elizabeth Bowen | Richard Middleton | Ghost Ship, The | Print: Book |