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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
 
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding Margaret IrwinStill She Wished for CompanyPrint: Book
1900-1945I think the 'C.N.' is fine. It is bound to make you respected among those whose respect alone is a comfort in moments of depression. For myself, I have been more impres...Arnold Bennett Margaret KennedyThe Constant NymphPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Margaret MitchellGone with the WindPrint: Book
1900-1945'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".'Margaret MitchellGone with the WindPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'Margaret MitchellGone with the windPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - 'Mein Kampf'. Oh, I lik...Margaret MitchellGone with the WindPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday...Eric Shipton Margaret MitchellGone with the WindPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell - A most remarkable book. I enjoyed it very much, but what a little bitch Scarlet O'Hara is! Vic's invariable ...Thomas Kitching Margaret MitchellGone with the windPrint: Book
1850-1899'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy ...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantMrs ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy ...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantCaritaPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Mrs Oliphant, - I cannot help venturing to express the admiration with which I have been reading the "Lover and his Lass." It is by your powerful, truth-seeing ...Alexander Kinglake Margaret OliphantThe Lover and his LassPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and who sent back to him at once a letter of four pages sa...William Ewart Gladstone Margaret OliphantMakers of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899Dear Mrs Oliphant, - It is with ceaseless admiration that I have read 'The Duke's Daughter'. My remembrance of what you had told me respecting the origin of your inclina...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantThe Duke's DaughterPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899Some little time since, I had the good fortune to find that there was at least one [one in italics] of your delightful books which I had missed - I mean 'In Trust' - and ...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantIn TrustPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture characters will impress upon many minds an important portion ...William Ewart Gladstone Margaret OliphantJerusalem: Its History and HopePrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I was captivated by "Margaret Maitland" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a copy and a too flattering letter [...] Nothing half so ...Francis Jeffrey Margaret OliphantPassages in the Life of Margaret MaitlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Margaret OliphantThe Heir-Presumptive and the Heir-ApparentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'.George Eliot [pseud] Margaret OliphantMy faithful JohnnyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret OliphantReview of The Master of BallantraePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Margaret Oliphant Print: Unknown


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