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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
 
1900-1945'I can't be bothered reading heavy stuff. I don't seem able to concentrate for long. I like books of the romantic and family kind. Just now I've got at home the "Home Div...Pearl BuckThe Home DividedPrint: Book
1850-1899'After muster I went into town & spent a couple of hours at the Yorick reading "The Home News" particularly interesting in this war time.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The Home NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'May brought back from the Library Home of the Blizzard.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Douglas MawsonThe Home of the BlizzardPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Finished Blizzard Land.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Douglas MawsonThe Home of the BlizzardPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, w...Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray Sir Henry ColeThe Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Bo...Print: Book
1800-1849From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, whic...Anne Isabella Thackeray Sir Henry ColeThe Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Bo...Print: Book
1900-1945Some marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Home: Its Work and InfluencePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 May 1843: 'Mary Howitt's last translation from Frederika Bremer's swedish, "The Home" charms me even more than "The Nei...Elizabeth Barrett Frederika BremerThe Home: or, Family Cares and Family JoysPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Homes of England' [transcribes text] 'Mrs Hemans'Augusta Browne F.D. HemansThe Homes of EnglandUnknown
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due...Lucy Maud Montgomery unknownThe Honey Stew of the Countess BerthaPrint: Book
1900-1945"He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it as a good test, to see if his lines could withstand...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe HoneymoonManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799
1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke Richard JohnsonThe honour or chivalry; or, the famous history of ...Print: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen Agnes and Egerton CastleThe Hope of the HousePrint: Book
1900-1945I finished The Hotel in Brooks's — not a good novel, although Eddy recommends it.James Lees-Milne Elizabeth BowenThe HotelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, "but I asked him on the wro...Michael Stapleton n/athe HotspurPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies [n/a]The HotspurPrint: Serial / periodical
"Enid Starkie claimed that reading Francis Thompson's 'The Hound of Heaven' when she was ten made her feel as though she had been taken hold of and mastered, and determin...Enid Starkie Francis ThompsonThe Hound of HeavenPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Florence Nightingale to Jane Martineau, 29 June 1876: 'I have thought of "The Hour and the Man" as the finest historical romance in any language. You would wonder if you...Florence Nightingale Harriet MartineauThe Hour and the ManPrint: Book
1800-1849Lord Jeffrey to 'Mr. Empson', December 1840: 'I have read Harriet [Martineau]'s first volume [of "The Hour and the Man"], and give in my adhesion to her Black Prince [Tou...Francis Jeffrey Harriet MartineauThe Hour and the Man (vol. I)Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Bruce Dilks A. A. MilneThe House at Pooh CornerPrint: Book


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