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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
 
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] P. von BohlenGenesisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. As an introduction to our...		Rosamund Wallis P. G. WodehouseCarry on, JeevesPrint: Book
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 P.C. WrenBeau GestePrint: Book
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 P.C. WrenBeau SabreurPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like thrillers and mysteries and oriental tales. Anything mystery which has nothing whatever to do with the war. I can read all I want about war in the newspapers. I ...P.G. WodehouseunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads "histoire de la Revolution par Rabault".'Percy Bysshe Shelley P.J. Rabaut Saint-EtiennePrecis histoire de la Revolution francaise redige ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

[...]

4. The subject of the eveni...		Muriel Stevens Pablo Picasso[on Cubism]Print: Unknown
1600-1699"In Part I of the Religio [Medici] (i:30), [Thomas] Browne confesses himself a writer of marginalia, quoting a passage of Paracelsus that he declare 'I never could pass ....Thomas Browne Paracelsus  Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.George Eliot [pseud.] Pasquale VillariunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'After that I read Voltaire's "Candide", and at 12 o'clock adjourned for a pint to the local pub. Switched on the wireless again at 2.0 for the same reason as before, and...Pat SloanSoviet DemocracyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm interested in Russia and want to know all about socialism. (Russia, Friend or Foe: Sloan)'Pat SloanRussia, Friend or FoePrint: Book
1850-1899'MacMahon's address is pasted up everywhere and political pictures fill the windows.'Robert Louis Stevenson Patrice de MacMahonunknownPrint: Poster
1700-1799'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and Rumphius says of his Bancudus angustifolia, which is...Joseph Banks Patrick BrowneThe Civil and Natural History of JamaicaPrint: Book
1700-1799"Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."Dorothy Wordsworth Patrick BrydoneA Tour through Siciliy and Malta in a Series of Le...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 23rd. [...] Read Brydone's Letters [...] from Sicily. [...] 'Monday April 24 [...] Read Brydone's Letters from Sicily & Malta which are most delightfu...Claire Clairmont Patrick BrydoneA Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of L...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Bridones travels - read Livy'Mary Shelley Patrick BrydoneTour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it appeared, that they were so very different in depth at...Samuel Johnson Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it appeared, that they were so very different in depth at...James Boswell Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Lett...Print: Book
1800-1849'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr Park's "Travels in Africa". I also read Mr Colquhoun's larg...Thomas Carter Patrick ColquhonTreatise on the Police of the metropolisPrint: Book


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