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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 May 1839: 'I am glad you have looked at Cheveley. [italics]Now[end italics] I can confess with one blush less that I hav...Elizabeth Barrett Rosina, Lady Bulwer-LyttonCheveley, or the Man of HonourPrint: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing Diary entry, Aug 15 1869: 'Tracts for the Times'Juliana Horatia Ewing Rowland Elliott [?]Tracts for the TimesPrint: Book
1900-1945'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere...Rosamond Lehmann Roy Fuller Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Royal Society The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Societ...Print: Book
1900-1945'"I like books by Ruby M Ayres and Anne Duffield. The young lady usually chooses the books for me - she knows what I want. Something light to take my mind off the war - ...Ruby M AyresunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Detailed summary of notes on front inside cover, flyleaf, title page, half-title page, first page of text, and rear inside cover. Very heavily annotated, with marginalia ...Vernon Lee Rudolf GoldscheidH?herentwicklung und Menschen?konomie: grundlegung...Print: Book
1900-1945Summary of notes on the half-title page and rear papers. Heavily annotated, with marginalia in both English and German throughout. Vernon Lee Rudolf GoldscheidEntwicklungswerttheorie, Entwicklungs?konomie, Men...Print: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Rudolf Jakob CamerariusDe sexu plantarum epistolaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolph Roeber. This is my introduction to Anarchism, and I find that there is something in its basic recognition of the living...William Soutar Rudolph RoeberAnarcho-SyndicalismPrint: Book
1900-1945Mr D. was in Brummana — an intelligent young schoolmaster to whom teaching came easy; and he introduced me to Rudolph Steiner's books. I worked through them conscie...Freya Stark Rudolph Steiner[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'And while we are on the subject of the war, I am sure you have noticed the excellent blank verse poem in this week's "Punch" entitled "Killed in Action". I read it wit...Clive Staples Lewis Rudolph Chambers LehmannKilled in ActionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Rudolph Hermann Lotze[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'Margaret Oliphant Rudyard KiplingNaulakhaPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1850-1899In her Writer's Recollections (1919; pp.325-26), Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember an occasion in Italy when, Paul Bourget having failed to translate Kipling's "McAndrew's...Henry James Rudyard KiplingMcAndrew's HymnUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Walter] Besant told [William Robertson] Nicoll that no sooner had he read "The Light that Failed" (1891) on a long train journey than he started it again and read it th...Walter Besant Rudyard KiplingThe Light that FailedPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and "the Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothersRudyard KiplingPuck of Pook's HillPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Rudyard KiplingStalky and CoPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Rudyard KiplingSixty PoemsPrint: Book


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