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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'For my own War reading I found, as the popularity of "The Times Broadsheets" proved, that the essential was, remoteness from actuality. Henry James, by his sublime irrel...Ronald Storrs William BlakeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [?of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [?of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs John RuskinunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs HoraceunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the way back [from the Bombay Secretariat] bought a few clothes and some books from Thacker, a better *libraire* than you will find in all Africa.[...] Out again at f...Ronald Storrs unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Kipling's "Diversities", Steevans "India", Wells "War [of the Worlds]" "Dynamiter" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'Ronald Storrs Graham WallasunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Kipling's "Diversities", Steevens' "India", Wells "War [?of the Worlds]" "Dynamiter" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'Ronald Storrs Ilya Ilyich MetchnikovunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that intuition is before reason (or facts). It certainly doe...Emma Darwin Ralph Waldo EmersonUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am much interested in De Quincey's letters, or rather in Dorothy Wordsworth's to him. There must have been something very engaging in him to have received such nice, w...Emma Darwin unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.'Emma Darwin Henry JamesUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Guy De MaupassantunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Pierre Jules Théophile GautierunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Robert BridgesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am grown to like Lowell much better at the end. He adores London and its climate especially, and the Parks and the thrushes all winter through.'Emma Darwin unknown LowellUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I believe you would like Mrs Craven if you could skip all the religion. In the year '86 she has exactly our feelings about Ireland and [the] G.O.M.'s mad folly.'Emma Darwin Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé CravenUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately — Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, the Winkworths.'Emma Darwin Frances or Sarah BurneyUnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'We entrained about 3 pm in cattle trucks. The Belgians had straw in theirs, and 20 men to a truck. We had 40 men, and no straw. A further distinction was made with the a...James Clifford Farrant unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Graffito, Chalk-written sign.
1900-1945'In the German barracks "Gott strafe England" was chalked up in many conspicuous places. It was also the headline on their bread coupon cards.'James Clifford Farrant unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Graffito, Chalk-written sign.
1850-1899'I have finally decided to come north tomorrow at 2.15. I don't like not to be there — I can read Strzygowski all the way in the train, pace you! I shall come back ...Gertrude Bell Josef StrzygowskiunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'After lunch they all went to the Eiffel Tower and I stayed at home and read Stevenson and wrote letters.' Gertrude Bell Robert Louis StevensonunknownPrint: Book


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