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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
 
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. The Proceedings of the Secret Committee..'Mountstuart Elphinstone unknownThe Proceedings of the Secret CommitteePrint: Book
1900-1945'Has it ever occurred to you what a fine story, really, "The Procurator of Judaea" might have been if Anatole France had possessed in any degree the gift of construction?...Arnold Bennett Anatole FranceThe Procurator of JudaeaPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 14 December 1847: 'A few days since I looked over "The Professor." I found the beginning very feeble, the whole narrative def...Charlotte Bronte Charlotte BronteThe ProfessorManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'P.S. Have begun the "Professor" and have read as far as the hero's arrival at Brussels. It is shaping very well. I believe you have read it have you not - J'Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontëThe ProfessorPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Professor'Sarah Good Charlotte BrontëThe ProfessorPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Pal...James Lackington BurgesThe Progress of Pilgrim Good-IntentPrint: Book
1800-1849transcription of the poem headed 'the progress of poesy./ thos. gray'Mary Groom Thomas GrayThe Progress of PoesyUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42 H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]...		Howard Smith Anton ChekhovThe ProposalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42 H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]...		Muriel Stevens Anton ChekhovThe ProposalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42 H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]...		Arnold Joselin Anton ChekhovThe ProposalPrint: Book
1900-1945(1)'What is nicer than to get a book — doubtful both about reading matter and edition, and then to find both are topping?.... I have just had this pleasure in Sidney's ...Clive Staples Lewis Philip SidneyThe Prose Works of Sir Philip SidneyPrint: Book
1900-1945Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (opening '[italics]Virtue[end italics], alas, is no mor...Edward Morgan Forster John VanbrughThe Provok'd WifePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John GaltThe Provost OR Memoirs of His Own TimesPrint: Book
1700-1799Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire.Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.Print: Book
1700-1799Read 'The Prude'.Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.Print: Book
1700-1799Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'.Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: even her father was not able to go straight to a shop...Viscountess Rhondda Havelock EllisThe Psychology of SexPrint: Book
1900-1945'[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexuality"were available.'May Sinclair Sigmund FreudThe Psychopathology of Everyday LifePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 10 December 1844: 'I am glad I have so much interesting matter to look forward to in the Eldon memoirs, as Pincher's biography. I a...Elizabeth Barrett Horace TwissThe Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eld...Print: Book
1900-1945'I must thank you for the "B[lack]wood" where your "Puffin" was really interesting.'Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Puffin (uncertain)Print: Serial / periodical


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