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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'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that little "Harold Brown" shop in Wimpole Shop [for street...Katherine Mansfield Louis VintrasThe Silver NetPrint: Book
1900-1945 I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book is very good. It is full of brains, & very provocati...Arnold Bennett John GalsworthyThe Silver SpoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a whole, up to that sample then it is distinctly stuff...Francis Warrington Dawson Francis Warrington DawsonThe SinManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Howard Smith Rudyard KiplingThe Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo [from the Just S...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished your poem of "The Sisters", and tell you truly and fairly that I read it with an interest and delight which I cannot express. I like it better than ...Sir William Elford Mary Russell MitfordThe SistersPrint: Book
1900-1945'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "The Tatler", turning over the pages furtively in the ...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The SketchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Washington IrvingThe Sketchbook of Geoffrey CrayonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Letter from home May 5th. Roullette -5. Read Slave of Lamp by Merriman.'William Thomas Henry Seton MerrimanThe Slave of the LampPrint: Book
1900-1945'If one read at all one was soon noticed. I lay in bed one night with a book I had bought at Smith's. They had a shop near our hut in Catterick Camp. It was S. R. Crocket...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Samuel Rutherford CrockettThe Smugglers: The Odyssey of Zipporah KattiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Also read a lovely book Snow Goose by a man called Gallico. It is a story of Dunkirk.'Vere Hodgson Paul GallicoThe Snow GoosePrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Hans Christian AndersonThe Snow QueenPrint: Book
1900-1945'... [Thomas Hardy] did once chance a criticism of Lady Grove's description of her brush with an unhelpful shop assistant when he read the proofs of The Social Fetich (19...Thomas Hardy Lady GroveThe Social FetichPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P...Harry McShane The SocialistPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Transcript of poem partially obscured by later use of the manuscript as a scrapbook. Probably copied from The Improvisatrice.member of Carey/Maingay groupLaetitia LandonThe Soldier's GraveUnknown
1850-1899?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ...Thomas Burt William WordsworthThe Solitary ReaperPrint: Book
1900-1945'Copies of "The Solitary Way" came along: looks quite nice. Looking at this handful of lyrics of unequal quality, one is tempted to question if they are worth all the bot...William Soutar William SoutarThe Solitary WayPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Have been to [Tynecastle] School again. Am going to do "Hiawatha" with them now.’Wilfred Owen Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Song of HiawathaPrint: Book
1800-1849Transcription of poem as 'The Song of Music'. 'Moore'.Mary Groom Thomas MooreThe Song Of MusicUnknown
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek n/aThe Song of SolomonPrint: Book
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1600-1699		''The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrape...Gabriel Harvey Solomon The Song of SongsPrint: Book


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