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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'My own treasures are nearly all with me still, showing only the honourable marks of age and continual reading...'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Little GypsyPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and are still remembered. Bennett must have felt a justif...Arnold Bennett Pauline SmithThe Little KarooPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would have published them in a small volume, but his publishi...Arnold Bennett Pauline SmithThe Little KarooManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair

Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved

Min 2 The date of the next Meeting was fixed fo...

Un-named members of the XII Book ClubJohn GalsworthyThe Little ManUnknown
1900-1945'Thanks for the book ["The Little Man"]. "Abracadabra" is immense. Indeed every page is as full as it can be right through the book.' Hence follow five more lines of pra...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Little Man and other satiresPrint: Book
1900-1945'These things [proofs of "The Little Man"] are much too exquisite and poignant to be really satire even if you prefer to call them by that name.' Hence follow twelve lin...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Little Man and other satiresPrint: galley proofs
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman Hans Christian AndersonThe Little Match GirlPrint: Book
1900-1945Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a young girl's feet in a missionary book about China, ...Patricia Beer Hans Christian AndersonThe Little MermaidPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 7.iv.41 S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
...		Muriel Stevens J. M. BarrieThe Little MinisterPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sep.Sep at Harborne'Sarah Good James BarrieThe Little MinisterPrint: Book
1850-1899'Evening wrote to Billy[.] Mammy read to us a very amusing book called "The little savage".'Florence Bell Frederick Marryat The Little SavagePrint: Book
1900-1945'Looked through Shorthouse's "[The] Little Schoolmaster Mark", not without pleasure,[...].'Ronald Storrs Joseph Henry ShorthouseThe Little Schoolmaster Mark: A Spiritual Romance Print: Book
1900-1945'The reading of the "White Bird", apart from the sheer pleasure your work always gives, had a special interest for me as demonstrating once more your wonderful power to d...Joseph Conrad J.[James] M.[Matthew] Barrie The Little White Bird Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 7.iv.41 S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
...		Mary S. Stansfield J. M. BarrieThe Little White BirdPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:] 'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share with her, and we study the various characters of th...Catherine Talbot Sarah FieldingThe Lives of Cleopatra and OctaviaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinThe Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin William GodwinThe Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and ...Print: Book
1600-1699'May 11. I read the lives of some moderne divines, and I was ashamed to find how short I came of such examples for zeale, and diligence. In Mr Stockton's life, whom I kne...Isaac Archer Samuel ClarkeThe Lives of Sundry Eminent PersonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"'John Clare Samuel JohnsonThe Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsPrint: Book
1850-1899?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no...Thomas Catling [unknown]The lives of the StoicsPrint: Book


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