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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[Lehmann's novel "Dusty Answer" has a structure] 'possibly derived from May Sinclair's bleak and brilliant portrait of misguided self sacrifice, "Life and Death of Harrie...Rosamond Lehmann May SinclairLife and Death of Harriet FreanPrint: Book
1900-1945Charlotte Mew 'felt stunned' by May Sinclair's novel "The Combined Maze" (published February 1913), telling Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, '"it has completely got and kept h...Charlotte Mew May SinclairThe Combined MazePrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 6th July. ?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair). Back to the office today and find that young Reid has done pretty well. Kept my work fairly up-to-date. ...Gerald Moore May SinclairMr Waddington of WyckPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 6th November. ?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair). Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Mother is ill and expect to have to go to hospital. W...Gerald Moore May SinclairThe Tree of HeavenPrint: Book
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library Ł1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook May SinclairThe Three BrontesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Here I have been reading any amount of rubbish: among them (the rubbishes) two quite admirable shockers by John (Prester) Buchan: THE POWERHOUSE and THE THIRTY NIN...Francis Brett Young May SinclairThe Divine FirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "3 Sisters". Went down to Oakwood Court to see Mother.'Verena Pennefather May SinclairThree SistersPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell May Sinclair [pseud. Mary Amelia St. Clair]Mr Waddington of WyckPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stayed at Home all the evening reading “The Giraffe Hunters”.'John Buckley Castieau Mayne ReidThe Giraffe HuntersPrint: Book
1850-1899'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters” then I smoked & drank gin & water'John Buckley Castieau Mayne ReidThe Giraffe HuntersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Boys finishing their maps. Finish reading to them Ocean Waifs.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Mayne ReidThe Ocean WaifsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I tried to finish "The Three Saplings" [sic] by Mazo de la Roche but couldn't'.Hilary Spalding Mazo de la RocheTwo Saplings, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him, regretting that he was not a more diligen...Samuel Johnson Melchor de OrtegaFelixmarte de HircaniaPrint: Book
1700-1799?Being now became a constant attendant of the gent?n ringers once or twice a week, I ? began to aspire towards ringing a longer peal, for w?ch purpose I wrote the changes...John Marsh members of the Society of London Scholars, J.D. and C.M. Campanologia improved; or, the Art of ringing made...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the English translation of A New Light of Alchymy (1674) by Michał Sędziwój (Sendi...Edward Pordage Michał SędziwójA New Light of Alchymy; Taken out of ye Fountain o...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Michael Angelo's "Pastoral".'John Ruskin Michael AngeloPastoralPrint: Book
1850-1899'The authorship of these beautiful verses has been most truculently fought about; but whoever wrote them (and it seems as if this Logan had) they are lovely. What time...Robert Louis Stevenson Michael BruceOde to the CuckooPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochleven and Life.'Dorothy Wordsworth Michael BruceLochlevenUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'Mary read Bruce.'Mary Hutchinson Michael BruceLochlevenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since...His poetical talent - a very fine ...Walter Scott Michael BruceElegy - Written in SpringUnknown


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