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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
 
1900-1945Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'Virginia Woolf Max EastmanThe Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of SciencePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of ...George Eliot Max MullerHistory of Ancient Sanskrit LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'I stayed at Home the whole day & read "John Bull & his island"'John Buckley Castieau Max O'RellJohn Bull and his islandPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The...Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The...Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Albert Ruskin Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Albert Ruskin Cook Max PembertonThe Diamond ShipPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Diamond ShipPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'Lovely hot day. Read Oppenheim and played Bridge after lunch.'Gertrude Bell Max von OppenheimVom Mittelmeer zum persischen Golf durch den Haurä...Print: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",...Arnold Wesker Maxim Gorky Print: Book
1900-1945'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an...Jack Jones Maxim Gorky[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 April 1902: 'I have read nothing [over Easter vacation] except a book by the new -- comparatively -- Russian, Gorki. It is called F...Leonard Woolf Maxim GorkyFoma GordyeeffPrint: Book
1900-1945'7th March 1929. Reading ?La M?re? (Gorki).' Gerald Moore Maxime La M?rePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Maxime Du CampunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read Maxime; but mark you further — I have never read anything else ... By the way, I have read Maxime du Camp.'Robert Louis Stevenson Maxime du CampSouvenirs LitterairesPrint: Book
1900-1945'14th March 1929 ?They have used God Himself to cheer us! They have clothed him in lies and calumny to kill our souls?. (Gorki ? ?La M?re?) Just what have our Woo...Gerald Moore Maxime GorkiLa M?rePrint: Book
1900-1945'20th March 1929. Finished ?La M?re? (Gorki)' Gerald Moore Maxime GorkiLa M?rePrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know none that shews the world in a more entertaining an...Catherine Talbot Maximilien de Bethune de SullyMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large building, with a fa?ade to it like a very large hotel or ...Maria Edgeworth Maxmillian de Bethune SullyMemoirsPrint: Book


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