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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
 
1800-1849'I was astonished yesterday to see in the Times (I sent it) the advertisement that Jenny Lind, after all, is to come out in the Lucia' [sing in "Lucia di Lammermoor" [le...Mary Shelley [n/a]TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Hedley took [me to] Reading Room and changed book and read Times and Illustrated News.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook TimesPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Went with May to reading room at 10 a.m. Read Times. Back at 11.30.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook TimesPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Went out with May to pay bills when snow & sleet stopped. She left me at Reading Room where I read Times & daily mirror & Graphic.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook TimesPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'We were always allowed to take in the German newspapers, and for a short time by the courtesy of a highly placed gentleman, a few copies of The Times and some ill...Lorimer John Austin TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'President Wilson made a really magnificent speech, reported in yesterday's Times. War now only awaits Congress assent—a foregone conclusion. He calls for the mobi...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was more definite news in The Times to-day of the Cambrai victory.' Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I went to the Divisional canteen which is close by, and made arrangements with them about supplying tea and sugar for my recreation room. Thence home. Details of the bat...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'So home to read in The Times the startling news that the Russians under Lenin, a revolutionary, are beginning preliminary negotiations towards peace. Really the o...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The Times correspondent declares that the great German offensive in the West is imminent, which is cheery. What a war!' Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'We have a lovely mess, well warmed and, like all the town, lit with electric light ... Harley came in to dine and sent for his Times, which he got to-day. In it w...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A word or two before I turn in. Magrath (who is a veritable godsend to me in every way, Christian, cheery, brave and wise) is reading the Times and warming his toe...C. J. Magrath TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Can’t something be done to buck up the 'Lit. Suppl'.? It is getting duller & duller, though it always contains 1 or 2 good articles.'Arnold Bennett Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also read the book reviews in "John O' London's". Quite of... [n/a]Times Literary SupplementPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 December 1904: 'I am sitting in the hotel garden surrounded by strange trees & masses of wonderful creepers [...] I have been read...Leonard Woolf Times Literary SupplementPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'What really [underlined] has [end underlining] harmed me here [as opposed to Violet Hunt's memoirs]- oddly enough -is Jessie's letter to the [underlined] Times [end unde...Ford Madox Ford Jessie ConradTimes Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945 In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sun...Arnold Bennett Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A letter and package of "New Statesman" and "Times Lit. Supp” came from Mrs. Palmer.' Edmund Blunden Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am wanted at battalion headquarters. A review of my poems has been printed in the “Times Literary Supplement” (a kind review it was, if ever there was one!), and my Co...Edmund Blunden Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Did you see a long article in the Times Literary Supplement about the "Magic Flute" which is on at the Shaftesbury? How I wish I could go up and hear it and also "Tris...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical


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