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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'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Washington IrvingThe Sketchbook of Geoffrey CrayonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Ralph Waldo Emerson[Essays]Print: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] John Gibson LockhartMemoirs of the Life of Sir Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] James Anthony FroudeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[correspondence with Valat]Print: Book
1850-1899'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.George Eliot [pseud.] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.George Eliot [pseud.] Theodor MommsenHistory of RomePrint: Book
1900-1945'Also am reading Berlin Diary, by Shirer, an American war correspondent. Our public men come out very badly in the years before the war.'Vere Hodgson William Lawrence ShirerBerlin DiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Also going through Vanity Fair again. It seems another world.'Vere Hodgson William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'Also I have been hearing ?Adelaide? many times; O! That is all I can say..'Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich von MatthissonAdelaideUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute m...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Sketchy BitsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute m...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Photo BitsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute m...Joseph Stamper Edward L. WheelerDeadwood DickPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Also read a lovely book Snow Goose by a man called Gallico. It is a story of Dunkirk.'Vere Hodgson Paul GallicoThe Snow GoosePrint: Book
1800-1849'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice". That young lady had a talent for describing the involv...Sir Walter Scott Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1850-1899'Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Numbers)Print: Book
1850-1899'Also to tell you that I have this morning read Kipling?s new book Captains Courageous, & that it is MAGNIFICENT.' Arnold Bennett Rudyard KiplingCaptains CourageousPrint: Book
1900-1945'Also told me he had been commissioned to write a history of Dudley a few days back. Had declined. We went back and read until 12 o'clock.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Also, please tell Miss Morris that the novel The Nihilist Princess is a sham, and empty of all dramatic matter. She had been afraid of it.'Oscar Wilde Louise Mignerot GagneurA Nihilist PrincessPrint: Book


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