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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'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a paper on Ruskin's Economics principally with referen...Charles Stansfield John RuskinUnto this LastPrint: Book
1900-1945'Quite warm but most agreeable. Talked to Mr Robertson about Justice and Maeterlinck and read some of the "Upanishad" book. Ditto after lunched [...]. Gertrude Bell unknownUpanishadsPrint: Book
1600-1699'in the evening, my wife and I all alone, with the boy, by water up as high as Putney almost with the tide, and back again, neither staying, going nor coming; but talking...Elizabeth Pepys Robert WildUpon the rebuilding the city ... the Lord Mayor an...Print: Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she dyed the 24 of March, 1602 the 45 year of her Raign, & ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Thomas Heywood (attrib.)Upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth fro...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Henry Wotton, 'Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Henry WottonUpon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset ...Unknown
1800-1849[transcribed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'If guardian Powers preside above Who still extend to virtuous Love A tutelary care The Virgins bosom?s earl...Lady Caroline Lamb William Robert SpencerUraniaUnknown
1900-1945girls' school stories came in for heavy and sustained attack, and at one stage in my life I painfully hankered after them. There was one in particular, 'Ursula's Last Ter...Patricia Beer Ursula's Last TermPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Bingley's useful knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'.Rev. Benjamin Newton William BingleyUseful knowledge or a familiar and explanatory acc...Unknown
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Slept all morning, then read quite a lot of "Utopia" in afternoon, & really it is very interesting (once you get over the spelling), & he had some very advanced ideas.'Hilary Spalding Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England their England", which I loved - it's most clever & int...Hilary Spalding Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Sir Thomas More's "Utopia", closely followed by the pr...Joseph Stamper Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Annotations] Written on Fol 1 recto, "Mechanics Institute Jan 1839" and on Fol 2 recto, in the same hand, "H.J.Batt Esq, Uxbridge"H.J. Batt Uxbridge & HIllingdon Literary & Mechanics Institu...Print: Advertisement, Pamphlet
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 6 January 1845: 'Have you read Mr Serjeant Talfourd's "Rambles & thoughts"? With some wordiness, & faults of taste otherwise, it is a v...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Noon TalfourdVacation Rambles and ThoughtsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...] home & read Delacroix journals; about whiich I ...Virginia Woolf T. S. Eliotvaledictory editorial articlePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Valentine'Sarah Good George SandValentinePrint: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the...Jem Parsons Henry WatsonValentine and OrsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]'s "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life"; and her op...Miss [-] John Gibson LockhartValeriusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Edward Arthur BurroughsValley of Decision, ThePrint: Book


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