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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'I had a most successful afternoon with Mrs [Humphrey] Ward yesterday. Their villa is a vision of beauty, looking over the Alban Lake on one side and the Campagna on the ...Gertrude Bell Mary Augusta Ward Preface to "Jane Eyre" Unknown
1850-1899'I'm going to return you "La Terre qui Meurt" which is most excellent.'Gertrude Bell René BazinLa Terre qui MeurtPrint: Book
1850-1899'I had a most thrilling batch of "Timeses" yesterday containing Labori's appeal to the Emperor. I see by a local paper that the military attachés are to be interrogated i...Gertrude Bell The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I had a most thrilling batch of "Timeses" yesterday containing Labori's appeal to the Emperor. I see by a local paper that the military attachés are to be interrogated i...Gertrude Bell Annuaire du Club Alpin FrançaisPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We were coasting down Corsica — I saw it out of my bathroom window — in perfect weather, mild and calm and sunny. We passed through the Straits of Bonifac[c]...Gertrude Bell Robert Louis StevensonThe Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his famil...Print: Book
1850-1899'Clouds blowing over which increased as the day went on and decided me not to go to the Alpe. A good deal bored. Fortunately I found "Many Cargoes" and read it.' Gertrude Bell William Wymark JacobsMany CargoesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Boys finishing their maps. Finish reading to them Ocean Waifs.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Mayne ReidThe Ocean WaifsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Exper: of Sister of Mercy.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Margaret GoodmanExperiences of an English Sister of MercyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I hope you got the books and that you wanted them. The Jokai is very extraordinary. I don't feel to be able to judge books in which the young ladies of the house sit in ...Gertrude Bell Mór (Maurus) Jókai unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am longing to hear what you think of "D.[David]G.[Grieve]" I read the first volume this morning — oh! how dull it is, how dull! how full of unnecessary detail, h...Gertrude Bell Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) WardA History of David GrievePrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Mr Ritchie] presented me with a fascinating work as a birthday present — Boswell's "Letters" — you can't think how entertaining they are.'Gertrude Bell James Boswell[unspecified letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'For the first time we seem to hear the echo of the voice, and to see the picture of the unknown friend who has charmed us so long... So we gladly welcome one more glimps...Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Jane Austen Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading "Robinson Crusoe". It is a splendid story. But I think Robinson need not have stayed so long on the island. He made a boat and hoisted a sail, and I ...Andrew J.C. Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'I tell you it [Robinson Crusoe] is a grand book . . . I am reading it a second time, and I think I like it better than I did at first. Every boy should get it. You know ...Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mother has been reading "The Excursion" lately.'Edith Lytton William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading a little of the "Religio Medici". Just at the beginning he is talking about the Mysteries of Religion, and how he loves to lose himself in one...Emily Lytton Thomas, Sir BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mummy...read them a lecture of Froude's on the conduct of boys, at breakfast. The contrast between what Froude thought boys ought to be, and what boys are, called fo...Edith Lytton James Anthony Froude Print: Book
1850-1899'We were startled this morning, at seven o'clock, by a letter from Colonel Phipps, enclosing a telegraphic despatch with the report, from the sixth edition of the Sun, of...Queen Victoria SunPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A misty, rainy morning. Had not slept very soundly. We got up rather early, and sat working and reading in the drawing-room till the breakfast was ready, for which we ha...Queen Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The evening being bright and moonlight and very still, we all went out, and walked through the whole village, where not a creature moved; — through the principal l...Prince Louis of Hesse anonproclamationPrint: Broadsheet, Poster


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