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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'I then read a book of Kipling's, "Under the Derdens [sic] ", which I had brought home with me and will send to you as soon as Grandmamma [Lady Olliffe] has read it. It i...Gertrude Bell Rudyard KiplingSoldiers ThreePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell Rudyard KiplingunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'In bed all day. Bob Craig and Janie Clark in afternoon. Bob gave me "Traffics and Discoveries". Leg much better. Bailleul has fallen. Damn and Blast it!'Guy Mainwaring Knocker Rudyard KiplingTraffics and DiscoveriesPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Howard Smith Rudyard KiplingThe Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo [from the Just S...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Roger Moore Rudyard KiplingThe River's TaleUnknown
1900-1945'Thursday. Lovely day. Walked about good deal. Pollard arrived. Fr. Read A Fleet in Being by Kipling. All well.'William Thomas Rudyard KiplingA Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Chan...Print: Book
1850-1899'...Mother reads all the new French novels and Rudyard Kipling ... and though she says they are so horrible she can hardly get through them, she will go on reading th...Edith Lytton Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1850-1899'Among the writers who deserve attention the first is Rudyard Kipling (his last book,”The Day’s Work”, a novel[sic]). J.M. Barrie—a Scotsman. His last book “Sentimenta...Joseph Conrad Rudyard KiplingThe Day's WorkPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nevertheless, there is nothing that I should prize more than a nice edition of Kipling, whose poems I am just beginning to read and to wonder why I never read them be...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I've read the "Seven Seas" and Jessie has used the scent (after heroic struggles with Kipling's diction and the glass stopper)and we are full of gratitude. Both things...Joseph Conrad Rudyard KiplingThe Seven SeasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Talking of Kipling it is time you began him: try "Rewards & Fairies" and if the first story in it "Cold Iron" doesn't knock you head over heels, I don't know what will...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard KiplingRewards and FairiesPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'We have all been plunged in misery here for the last week because no one can remember the context or the author of a quotation that we all know as well as our own ...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling[Untitled]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have … changed billet, and the chaps here are very nice indeed. Good men, which is a great point. But in this new democracy almost everyone is jolly, or tries to b...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rudyard KiplingThe New Army in TrainingPrint: Book
1900-1945‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rudyard KiplingFor all we have and arePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with whom I usually spent the...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rudyard KiplingThe Fringes of the FleetPrint: Book
1900-1945'The priest brother would give us English songs on his Gramophone ... They were v. decent & I should have liked to partake the funny dinner but we returned to Vaton...Cecil Vincent Connolly Rudyard KiplingDepartmental DittiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Kim". Heard from S by last post.'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walked Marshy Meadows by myself. Read "Kim".'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walked Marshy Meadows. Read "Light that Failed."'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingThe Light that FailedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote to Maysie. Read Jungle Book.'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle BookPrint: Book


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