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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'I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.'Siegfried Sassoon Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativePrint: Book
1900-1945‘Have you read "Harry Richmond" lately? I like the first part of the book immensely, but skipped afterwards—copiously and vigorously. On the whole, "Evan Harrington" ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 18th December. ?Rev. Captain Kettle? ? (Hyne)'.Gerald Moore Charles John Cutcliffe Wright HyneThe Rev. Captain KettlePrint: Book
1850-1899'My father was fond of asking Joachim [celebrity violinist] to play to him in his own house. One particular evening I remember, at 86, Eaton Square. My father had been ex...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe RevengeUnknown
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: "What was the year when we saw so much of the American family who so much reminded us of the Dos...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe reverberatorPrint: Book
1850-1899"'On first reading Shelley", he writes, "I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known existed." Now it was the VERSE, not the argument, which ...John Masefield Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Revolt of IslamPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday June [...] 19th. [...] Read the Revolt of Islam with M.G. [i.e. friend Chretien-Hermann Gambs]'. [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries fo...Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Revolt of IslamPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so f...Thomas Westwood Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Revolt of Islam (Canto I)Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memories and Studies, Walter de la Mare's The Return -- sup...Edward Morgan Forster Amber ReevesThe Reward of VirtuePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, c. 25 June, 1797: '“The Rhedycenian Barbers” is Grosvenor Bedfords — & a most incomparable parody it is.' Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles BedfordThe Rhedycenian BarbersPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Shaved, breakfast - porridge, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Mystery of the Sands" [sic]. Dinner of roast beef, cabbage & potatoes, rice. Slept a little. Head shaved, wo...John Frederick William Dunn Erskine ChildersThe Riddle of the SandsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat. Nil. [i.e., no mail]. Read The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.'William Thomas Erskine ChildersThe Riddle of the SandsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tues. PC from Registrar. Read the Right of Way by Sir Gilbert Parker.'William Thomas Gilbert ParkerThe Right of WayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote to Reg. Read "The Right Stuff". Up on the mat for being late last night. Pass stopped!? Visit from Miss Barnsley and her aunt - Mrs Frank Wright. Sweets & 5 books....John Frederick William Dunn Ian HayThe Right StuffPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "The Right Stuff" by Ian Hay.'William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.)The Right StuffPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat. Welcome May. Letter from home. Read "The Right Stuff" by Ian Hay ... Up 62 in bridge. Thunder Storm.'William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.)The Right StuffPrint: Book
1900-1945'We are now on board ship and expect to have four or five days of it. It does seem a pity to have got so near home and be unable to get nearer. Still, I have heard ...Robert Dunlop Smith Ian HayThe Right StuffPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
    L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved

2. A brief ...		Francis E. Pollard Stefan ZweigThe Right to Heresy: Castellio against CalvinPrint: Book
1800-1849"As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into reasoning upon men and things, the causes of misery, th...Gerald Massey Tom PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Thomas PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: Book


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