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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
 
1900-1945'5th March 1929. Papers from mother, with an account of the opening of the new girls? Secondary school. A very fine building. Photo of mother as one of the council n...Gerald Moore Pierre BenoitAtlandidePrint: Book
1900-1945'7th March 1929. Reading ?La M?re? (Gorki).' Gerald Moore Maxime La M?rePrint: Book
1900-1945'12th March 1929 Wrote to mother; read my week?s papers and extracted cuttings.' Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
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
1900-1945'14th March 1929. I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, and talked of ?Wander-thirst?, of Stevenson, of garden...Gerald Moore Walt WhitmanSong of the Open RoadPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore BrooksunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Oliver Wendell HolmesunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Artemus WardunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Charles DickensSketches by BozPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.' Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.' Gerald Moore Punch, or the London CharivariPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'20th March 1929. Finished ?La M?re? (Gorki)' Gerald Moore Maxime GorkiLa M?rePrint: Book
1900-1945'21st March 1929. ?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).' Gerald Moore Anatole FranceLe Petit PierrePrint: Book
1900-1945'23rd March 1929 (Saturday). Bought a ?Monde?, a ?Canard Enchain??, and Goncourt?s ?La Faustin? then spent the afternoon reading. ? La Faustin? (Edmond Goncourt)'. Gerald Moore Edmond GoncourtLa FaustinPrint: Book
1900-1945'24th March 1929 (Sunday). Delicious morning. We breakfasted in the garden, and after, while the Th?ologues retire upstairs to study the Epistle to the Romans. Melle...Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'This book made a deep and lasting impression upon me because, apart from its profound human interest in the widest sense of the term, the agonising process of revaluatio...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Oscar WildeBallad of Reading Gaol or De ProfundisPrint: Book
1900-1945Author describes being put into cell in Reading Gaol for the first time: 'That completed the furniture in the cell. But wait! I forgot the Bible! A humane Prison Commiss...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly or clamorously, but silently and with an intensity of...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book


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