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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'Fri[.] Lovely day. As usual. Tired of it all. Read "Three Men on a bummel" by Jerome K Jerome.'William Thomas Jerome K. JeromeThree Men on the BummelPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and though I was sorry you put yourself to any expense on my...Sydney Smith [anon.]Three Months in Ireland. By an English ProtestantPrint: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel Alexandre DumasThree MousequetairesPrint: Book
1700-1799Read... "The Beautifull Pyrate".Gertrude Savile Jean Regnauld de SegraisThree Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR FPrint: Book
1700-1799Tent all day light. Read Ugania [?] and Bajesett. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile Jean Regnauld de SegraisThree Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR FPrint: Book
1850-1899'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the first place you say you do not call The 3 paths a nov...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Herbert GreyThree Paths, TheUnknown
1800-1849'To my utter mortification and dissappointment I have this day received a letter from my Bookseller refusing my new work on his usual terms of publishing with me. For wha...George Boyd James HoggThree Perils of Man, TheManuscript: Unknown
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 H.G. WellsThree Short StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "3 Sisters". Went down to Oakwood Court to see Mother.'Verena Pennefather May SinclairThree SistersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 4th. May 1942.
M. Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read, pronounced rather more accurate ...		Francis E. Pollard Mary PollardThree Weeks in KerryManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ago, yet was published only the other day - for whom...Margaret Oliphant SwinburneThrenodyPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Out with May. She left me in Reading Room when she went about housemaid — read daily graphic[.] Took out "Through Central Africa from East to West". Very gratifying acco...Harriet Bickersteth Cook Cherry KeartonThrough Central Africa from East to WestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Copied extracts p 93 of Kerton's [sic] E.A. [Through Central Africa from East to West]'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Cherry KeartonThrough Central Africa from East to WestPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time well written, unlike the trashy love stories of Eth...Phillip GibbsThrough the Dark NightPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I read the "New Yorker" article (getting more and more indignant) I thought, "This man, although he is saying some exceedingly foolish things, is a man of intelligenc...Vita Sackville-West Edmund WilsonThrough the Embassy Window; Harold NicolsonPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I...buried myself in it all afternoon, my pleasure enhan...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lewis CarrollThrough the Looking GlassPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 15 September 1907: 'I have just read [Francis Cornford's] Thucydides Mythistoricus. It seems to me rather good, except that as a book...Leonard Woolf Francis CornfordThucydides MythistoricusPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931: 'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembered: and Ford M. Ford's memoirs [Thus to Revisit] ...Virginia Woolf Ford Madox FordThus to RevisitPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have inspected all the work the binder has done for you and as far as I can rember it seems to be what you ordered. He has put 'Hueffer' on the back of 'Thus to Revisi...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox FordThus to RevisitPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart. 'The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at em...Virginia Woolf Matthew ArnoldThyrsisPrint: Book


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