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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'I read a little after supper also Gwen & Jack.'Anne Jenkins unknownUnknown
1900-1945'I plucked a couple of fowls Jack helped 1 for Miss Thomas Cambrian house another for brother John. I also read a little before retiring.'Anne Jenkins unknownUnknown
1900-1945'I felt too tired for much reading. Gwen did some sewing after supper.'Anne Jenkins unknownUnknown
1900-1945'Gwen's hand is improving. I applied some carbonate of soda to [indecipherable] having read about in a medical book.'Anne Jenkins unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Lying in my dugout or funkhole the other day, I became too bored to read serious stuff, or write letters; so turning my attention to the few filthy magazines strewn ...Ivor Bertie Gurney unknown unknownunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Here’s a part of our Hut of 30. [Owen had sent a postcard showing the camp enclosed with the letter.] I slaved for them, all Sunday as Orderly—never thought myself c...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We had Church Parade this morning. One Major read the Lesson and another played the organ. This afternoon I have been reading a book which I just received from Lesli...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We have to go back to Camp on Monday! There are a number of Tents now standing: perhaps for us! I have not been to Hornchurch this Afternoon, but finding a well-furn...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘At the first Ambulance I arrived at in the Car, a Corporal came up to me with a staid air of sleepy dignity that seemed somehow familiar. And when he began to enter ...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen O. Henry (pseud. Willam Sydney PorterunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I have spoken of his affection for Dickens. Trollope he liked. Thackeray I think not over much, though he had a due regard for such creations as Major Pendennis. Mer...Joseph Conrad Arthur SchopenhauerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'We had spent many an evening in Teheran, poring over maps and discussing our journey across the Bakthiari country. It had not been easy to get information; the map...Vita Sackville-West unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Down in the village street stood our motor, the ceiling light switched on, brilliantly illuminating the interior, and inside it, oblivious to the crowd that presse...unknown unknown Edward GibbonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was a change to spend such a lazy day. We read the Apocrypha, I remember, and wandered a little, but not very far afield, not much further than the spring where...Vita Sackville-West unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1850-1899'Piano again disentangled; and some hope, not for it only, but for the tale. I have read it to my mother, who thought it was the only one of mine she had ever heard, that...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevensonunknown "Tale"Manuscript: Unknown, Seems to refer to one of a set of stories that RLS had at various stages of planning and completion, see Letter 329.
1850-1899'She[a distant Polish relative of Conrad]spoke of you, told me you were her cousin, that you always loved reading Jules Verne's travels, etc., etc.'Joseph Conrad Jules Verneunknown (see notes below)Print: Book
1800-1849Mathematics, I have absolutely never thought on - excepting some trifles from the Ladies' and Gentleman's diary - which I shall have conscience enough not to trouble you ...Thomas Carlyle Reuben BURROWUnknown from 'Ladies' and Gentleman's Diary'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think I cannot better employ the hour of leisure, which n...Thomas Carlyle Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondiunknown historyPrint: Book
1900-1945Great black blocks, roughly cut, show the seawall protecting the citadel's approach; and on a ledge east of the causeway the two inscriptions in the rock are clear ...Freya Stark Anon Anonunknown inscriptionsUnknown
1900-1945What a bloody world we are living in! To read the papers makes one quite sick and here one cannot help feeling that the horror over poor little Dollfuss is largely ...Freya Stark unknown unknownunknown Italian newspapersPrint: Newspaper


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