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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
 
1700-1799'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was like...James Hogg R.H. CromekRemains Of Nithsdale And Galloway SongPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would have been sorry to imagine before the public eye; but ...Elizabeth Hamilton R.H. CromekReliques of Robert Burns Print: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 24th June. ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram). Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ?Daily Post? criticism on poor casting. Quite ri...Gerald Moore R.H. MottramThe Spanish FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...] Is it necessary to mention distinctly Maurice and F...Margaret Oliphant R.H. Story Manuscript: Sheet, work in MS
1900-1945'I finish reading the 1942 diary of R.J.H.S. (another internee). It is an intensely personal document totally unlike mine, though we live under precisely similar conditio...Thomas Kitching R.J.H.S. DiaryManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you. I do hope you like his poetry almost as much as he likes yours. I keep a vol. of his a...Harriet Martineau R.M. Milnes Print: Book
1800-1849'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial t...James Hogg R.P. GilliesGerman Stories, selected from the works of Hoffman...Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading 'Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour'. Rather good.'Arnold Bennett R.S. SurteesMr Sponge's Sporting TourPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I thought it too personal, too sacred for publication, bu...Margaret Oliphant R.T. DavisonLife of Archibald Campbell TaitPrint: Book
1900-1945'[C. F.] Andrews was a missionary with the Cambridge Brotherhood and present at [William] Rothenstein's Hampstead home on 30 June 1912, when, before a select audience, in...William Butler Yeats Rabindranath TagorePoems from Gitanjali: Song OfferingsUnknown
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neg...Wilfred Owen Rabindranath Tagore Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans ...Alfred, Helen and Janet RawlingsRabindranath TagoreChitraPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans ...Katherine Evans Rabindranath TagoreCrescent Moon, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans ...Violet Wallis Rabindranath TagoreKing of the Dark ChamberPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans ...Charles E. Stansfield Rabindranath TagoreGardener, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans ...Charles Evans Rabindranath TagorePost OfficePrint: Book
1900-1945‘When I clamp-clump-clamp-clumped into the Poetry Bookshop on Thursday, the poetic ladies were not a little surprised. The Readings were from Rabindranath Tagore, rea...Wilfrid Owen Rabindranath TagoreGitanjaliPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the letters [from Aunt Rachel] again and again as I strode furiously across the Parks, and the wind threw tears cold against my face. Often, reading her carefully...Ralph Glasser Rachel [letters from Glasser's aunt]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Towards the end of the war I would receive a letter in her tiny, rounded hand, one of those wartime "pre-mission" letters, intended for onward transmission only if the w...Ralph Glasser Rachel [letter]Manuscript: Letter
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1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rachel BakerRemarkable Sermons of Rachel Baker and pious ejacu...Print: Book


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