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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'In much that way, I felt later, when my mother first read Beowulf to me, Grendel must have come up from his marsh mists, pawing and snuffling round the doors of Heriot, ...Rosemary Sutcliff BeowulfPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff RainbowPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Beatrix PotterunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff A.A. MilneunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Robert Louis StevensonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Hans Christian AndersenunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Kenneth GrahameunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Rudyard KiplingPuck of Pook's HillPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Rudyard KiplingunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff George John Whyte-MelvilleThe GladiatorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Edward Bulwer-LyttonLast Days of PompeiiPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Arthur WeigalEgyptian PrincessPrint: Book
1900-1945'When I was about six, she decided that the time had come for me to learn to read. And that was when she made her mistake. Instead of merely sitting me down in front of P...Rosemary Sutcliff unknown[children's book]Print: Book
1900-1945'She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would learn to read as a means of avoiding that particular...Rosemary Sutcliff Hans Christian AndersenLittle Match Girl, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last, discovering suddenly what the mystery was all about. ...Rosemary Sutcliff GrimmFairy TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'And then one day I found a book. It was a book called Emily of New Moon, about a little girl whose father died of consumption – that made a change, to start with - aft...Rosemary Sutcliff L.M. MontgomeryEmily of New MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I think she thought I was French as I was reading the "Matin". But when I picked up Lamb which was obviously an English book, she began throwing out leading questions.'Harold Nicolson Charles LambunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I went to a party given by Mr Baldwin [Prime Minister] to the junior Ministers at No. 10. We all sat round the Cabinet Table and old S.B. read out the King's Speech.'Harold Nicolson King's SpeechUnknown
1900-1945'Moreover, her train had arrived one-and-a-half hours before luncheon, so she had gone to the Paddington Hotel and sat in the lounge reading P.G.Wodehouse.'Ethel Smyth Pelham Grenville WodehouseunknownPrint: Book


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