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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'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.		Knox Taylor George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sandstone all riven and broken, without water to smooth it. Great purposeless ruined gashes running up into the hills. We found our dulul here and camped on account ...Gertrude Bell George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John WhitakerThe Origin of Arianism DisclosedPrint: Book
1600-1699'and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyles book of Forms tonight and tomorrow'Elizabeth Pepys Robert BoyleThe origin of formes and qualitiesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to h...Elizabeth Pepys Robert BoyleThe origin of formes and qualitiesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to h...William Battelier Robert BoyleThe origin of formes and qualitiesPrint: Book
'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Charles DarwinThe Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It...John Masefield Charles DarwinThe Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1900-1945'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.Ewan McColl Friedrich EngelsThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dr Ferris [...] has lent me a treatise of Dr Vincent's on the origin of the Greek verb, which seems to be ingenious. As far as I can collect from the little I have read ...William Windham William VincentThe Origination of the Greek VerbPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Then...Samuel Pepys William DugdaleThe Origines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so, to finish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "Other Ho...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesThe Other HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise ...Henry Van DykeThe Other Wise ManPrint: Book
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing houseMary Elizabeth BraddonThe Outcasts or Henry DunbarPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thank you for the fine present.[...] While reading delightedly this little work which shines with so soft a brightness, I have for a moment been able to forget the passa...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe OutcryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tidied room and read Outdoor World. Wrote to Sommy.'Verena Vera Pennefather n/a n/aThe Outdoor WorldPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The more I read of H.G.’s 'Outline' the more staggered I am by it.' Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe Outline of HistoryPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'They could no more accept it than they or any other powerful nation had ever accepted the teaching of his Master and Friend - for "to take him seriously", as H.G. Wells ...Vera Brittain Herbert George WellsThe Outline of HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Nikolai GogolThe OvercoatPrint: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cliffs of St. Lawrence. Mr. Edgar Estcourt [...] talked...Elizabeth Missing Sewell The Oxford and Cambridge ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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