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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'He would say he bought books to read, not to stare at their backs on a shelf while they collected dust over the years. He liked books to be well bound but it was their c...Joseph Conrad  Print: Book
1900-1945' Most mornings he spent reading the papers until about half past ten, then answered any letters that had come [...].'Joseph Conrad  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'If my father saw my mother, brother or myself reading a book he would cruise around and pounce on it if we put it down when we went out of the room. When we returned the...Joseph Conrad  Print: Book
1850-1899'Streets of Montargis. Boulevard (if you please) de Belles Manières; streets of the Five Bridegrooms, the Ancient Palace, the Good William, the dead, of God’s Oven...Robert Louis Stevenson  Print: Streetname plaques
1900-1945'The night before we left [Montpellier]was one of the worst I have ever spent. Joseph Conrad was still handicapped by having his right hand in bandages, the gout had twis...Joseph Conrad  
1900-1945'At another time he insisted that the gardener should remove all the plants from the tall stage in the glass house, that adjoined the drawing room. Then he had been wont ...Joseph Conrad  Print: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad The Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful I...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'He [Conrad] one or twice said that when he was going down Ratcliffe Highway [from the City to Limehouse, East End of London] he was jumped out at from a doorway by a gen...Joseph Conrad The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I studied my [either Persian or Arabic] grammar this morning and went to the London Library where I looked through volumes and volumes of Asiatic Societies and found lit...Gertrude Bell Journal of the Royal Asiatic SocietyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I came away rather early for I had a lesson at 5. My Pundit was extremely pleased with me, he kept congratulating me on my proficiency in the Arabic tongue! I think his ...Gertrude Bell The KoranPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Monthly Cricket ... Summed; good reading, best I've seen as a whole; shaky on the pictures.'Robert Louis Stevenson Magazine of ArtPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[Campbell is describing entering a German dugout captured after a successful offensive] 'Their home was very like one of ours, maps and pictures stuck on the walls, sh...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Book
1800-1849'3rd mo. 15th. In looking over the events of today, I believe I suffered loss from reading the light and frivolous contents of a newspaper. May it serve as a caution for ...Edward Foster Brady  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very wits out of my head, for the...Charles Dickens The Terrific RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Frank was reading The Times and the first account of the battle that we had seen, the others were sleeping. I heard Frank's short bitter laugh, not a cheerful sound at...Patrick James Campbell The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Once or twice I left the safety of the trench and went out alone, down the hill towards Sailly-le-Sec ... I told myself that I might obtain some useful information ... B...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Book
1900-1945'Three o'clock. I was trying to read my book, but I did not take in what I was reading. Instead of words on the page, I saw Germans, Germans coming over the crest, lines ...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Book
1900-1945'"Read that," [Major Cecil] said, when he came to where I was standing. It was an envelope, an ordinary envelope, addressed in Cherry's handwriting to the O.C. A Batte...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Orders for the day.
1900-1945'It is now about time that Tertia read "La Chartreuse de Parme". Maguerite has just read it.

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I have subscribed to the M[anchester] Guardia...		Arnold Bennett Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘November 27 I have decided to make this diary my chief personal record of the war ... The chief drawback is – as I have found ever since I joined the press – that writi...Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean  Print: Unknown


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