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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
 
1850-1899'This morning, reading "Lady of Glynne".'John Ruskin Julia Cecilia StrettonLady of GlynnePrint: Book
1850-1899'The Queen of the County'Sarah Good Julia Cecilia StrettonThe Queen of the CountyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent, but the man.'Virginia Woolf Julia Mary Cartwright AdyThe Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart.Print: Book
1900-1945'[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who had lately brought out her memoirs. Mrs Ward had bee...Mary Augusta Ward Julia Ward HoweReminiscencesPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Julian unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Bergson, R?guy, Claudel, crowd ? and I?m with him all th...Winifred Agnes Moore Julian BendaBelphegorPrint: Book
1900-1945‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Julian GrenfellInto BattlePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...Philip Larkin Julian HallSenior Commoner, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


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Howard L. Sikes Julian HuxleyAfrica ViewPrint: Book
1900-1945'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walt...Antonia White Julian of NorwichSixteen Revelations of Divine Love Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read your delightful and penetrating (I use the word deliberately) "[Mysterious] Japan". I have the book. I was looking into it again only the other day. Pray do ...Joseph Conrad Julian Street Mysterious JapanPrint: Book
1850-1899"Laetus cost me 2s. 6d. My wife bet me 2s. 6d. I couldn't read it aloud without crying. I thought I could. But after a page or two - I put my hand in my pocket. I said th...Revd. Going Juliana Horatia Gatty EwingLaetus Sorte Mea or The Story of a Short LifePrint: Book
1850-1899"There were not many books in that house, but Father and Mother as soon as they heard I could read sent me priceless volumes. One I have still, a bound copy of 'Aunt J...Rudyard Kipling Juliana Horatia Gatty EwingSix to SixteenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Some marginal notes in French throughout. Given by the author to Vernon Lee.Vernon Lee Julien BendaLe Bergsonisme ou une Philosophie de la MobilitPrint: Book
1900-194518 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a passage aloud'. Roger Fry Julien BendaunknownPrint: Book, Pamphlet
1900-1945[Whether this contains evidence of any particular reading experience is unclear] 'Presumably these writers had never read the French critic Julien Benda, who nine year...Vera Brittain Julien BendaLa Trahison des ClercsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the fog the safest guide is a blind man. This is a [italics] sortes [end italics] from Julien Green to whose journal I turn for some light' [she hopes Green's methods...Antonia White Julien Green[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Detailed marginalia in French in pencil on the following pages: 49-51Vernon Lee Julien-Noel CostantinLes v?g?taux et les milieux cosmiques (adaptation ...Print: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It certainly has a quality but it is very much like the...Joseph Conrad Juliet M. Soskice (Hueffer)Memoirs from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read, after a long interval, with much delight, the first two Books of Caesar's "Commentaries"....'Thomas Green Julius CaesarCommentariesPrint: Book


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