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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'but went home again by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night, which I do not like so well as that.'Samuel Pepys Paul ScarronThe Fruitlesse PrecautionPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to H. G. Wells, 8 November 1906: 'I came back last night from five days in London to find your so generously-given "America," and I have done nothing today bu...Henry James H. G. WellsThe Future in AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945'And on the subject of Wells, his book on the United States is quite smart. He has understood a heap of fundamentally unintelligible things. That's the purpose of an imag...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells The Future in America: A search after realitiesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... when ... [Amy Barlow's] brother-in-law caught her sniffing over ... [Ethel Voynich, "The Gadfly" (1897)], he began to weep in [mock] sympathy.'Amy Barlow Ethel VoynichThe GadflyPrint: Book
1850-1899'What do you think of the "Gadfly"? I wrote what I thought to P. [presumably Sydney Pawling of Heinemann] who rejoined gallantly. But it comes to this, if his point of vi...Joseph Conrad E.(Ethel) L.(Lilian) VoynichThe GadflyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I heard the greatest part of the Gamester read by Mr Garrick, before it was brought upon the stage. On the whole, I much liked it. I thought it a very affecting performa...David Garrick Edward MooreThe GamesterUnknown
1850-1899'Then there is Mr Brand's lantern and his Highland cloak; and the tale of how he, John Brand, right royally attired in the garb of old Gaul, presented a nosegay of roses ...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry ErskineThe Garb of Old GaulPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol].John Clare John Hamilton ReynoldsThe Garden of FlorencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

The following essays wer...		Howard Smith Margaret DilksThe GardenerManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Winston Churchill had been Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Baldwin Government of 1924, which now, after five years of office, sought re-election. In "The Gathering S...Vera Brittain Winston ChurchillThe Gathering StormPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan n/aThe GemPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams The GemPrint: Serial / periodical, comic
1900-1945'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer...Muriel Box n/aThe GemPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'That's first rate stuff. I have read all but two of the stories, which'll have their turn this afternoon and I shall take up your copy on Monday myself and deliver it to...Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerThe General PlanPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear that Cambridge and London were a bit archaic as to the ...Winifred Agnes Moore John Maynard KeynesThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Mon...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Richard KnollesThe generall historie of the TurksPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.'George Eliot [pseud.] Herbert SpencerThe Genesis of SciencePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I think "The Genius" is a pretty good book.' Arnold Bennett Theodore DreiserThe GeniusPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life from Thomas Deloney, The Gentle Craft (Pt. II).Edward Morgan Forster Thomas DeloneyThe Gentle Craft part IIPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lunched alone at the hotel, reading with indecent hilarity O. Henry's "Gentle Grafter", as good short stories as you want; almost worthy to rank with Maupassant, Kipling...Ronald Storrs O. Henry (pseud)The Gentle GrafterPrint: Book


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