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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'[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
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...John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: 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...Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began to read French stories, those to which I returned mos...Enid Starkie French fictionPrint: Book
1900-1945"Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener Tom Houghton; sneaking into the kitchen to spirit aw...Ellen Clifford  Print: Book
1900-1945At first it was thought that Jeremy was deaf - but tests showed that his hearing was perfect. When the condition [dyslexia] was finally diagnosed his mother read to him ...Elizabeth Edith Huggins  Print: Unknown
1900-1945'In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]'Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsNew Machiavelli, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audience of Marguerite Sheldon and Knoblock's agent Miss Ka...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettMilestonesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'When it rained, Bennett stayed in the cabin and read Dostoevsky.'Arnold Bennett Fyodor DostoyevskyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945"Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she had been especially impressed by the passage in whic...Christine Longford Susan WarnerThe Wide, Wide WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,...Joan Evans Salomon ReinachOrpheus:A History of ReligionsPrint: Book
1900-1945Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,...Joan Evans Jane HarrisonProlegomena to the Study of Greek ReligionPrint: Book
1900-1945Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,...Joan Evans FarnellCults of the Greek StatesPrint: Book
1900-1945Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,...Joan Evans Sir James George FrazerThe Golden BoughPrint: Book
1900-1945'... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's "The ...Margaret Cole J. A. HobsonThe Science of WealthPrint: Book
1900-1945"... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's The S...Margaret Cole H. G. WellsNew Worlds for OldPrint: Book
1900-1945"... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's The S...Margaret Cole H. G. WellsThe First Men in the MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945"[in her autobiography Growing up Into Revolution (1949), Margaret Cole] conveys the combination of amusement and delight she and her companions experienced reading Shaw ...Margaret Cole and Girton contemporariesGeorge Bernard Shaw Print: Unknown
1900-1945"A conversion narrative precisely illustrating ... [the] effects of reading in action is told by Margaret Smith, who sceptically bought a copy of Votes for Women around 1...Margaret Smith Votes for WomenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Dora Montefiore, sent to Holloway [as suffragette] in October 1906, recalls the decor of her cell: "On the shelf were a Bible, a wooden spoon, a salt cellar, and one oth...Dora Montefiore unknownunknownPrint: Book


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