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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'Have been trying to read Solent Wolf [sic] again -- duck-weed and spittle unrelieved [...] No wonder that those Hardyesque fungi, the Powys [brothers T. F. and John Cowp...Edward Morgan Forster John Cowper PowysWolf SolentPrint: Book
1900-1945Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best book of the autumn. As for Powys, he is a friend of mi...Arnold Bennett John Cowper PowysWolf SolentPrint: Book
1900-1945'I don't read newspapers, but I get the magazine "Woman", and I spend about 2 hours reading that.' [n/a]WomanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have just been looking, with surprise & pleasure, at this week?s 'Woman'. It is really very good.' Arnold Bennett WomanPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as insistent and inspiring as a trumpet-call summoning ...Vera Brittain Olive SchreinerWoman and LabourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.'Claire Clairmont John BeaumontWoman PleasedPrint: Book
1800-1849In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to all your married friends "Woman's Mission" a 3/6d boo...George Eliot [pseud] Sarah LewisWoman's MissionPrint: Book
1800-1849'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athens" by Miss Owenson; which must be very clever, becau...Austen FamilySydney OwensonWoman, or Ida of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849'"At that time [ca 1809]", continued Lady [-], "all the world was engaged in reading Ida of Athens. I think it was likely to please a [italics] vivid imagination [end ita...Lady [-] Sydney OwensonWoman, or Ida of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849'Plato and tact sounds like Plato and puppy, an incongruous mixture of ancient and modern, such as only suits the language of second-rate novels. Lady Morgan, I suppose, ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Sydney, Lady MorganWoman: or, Ida of AthensPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, lured on by t...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceWomen in LovePrint: Book
1900-1945'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women" and "Women in Political Evolution", which I still t...Hannah Mitchell Joseph MacabeWomen in Political EvolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 25 March 1852:

'I ought long since to have acknowledged the gratification with which I read Miss Kavanagh's "Women of C...		Charlotte Brontë Julia KavanaghWomen of ChristianityPrint: Book
1900-1945'Stayed up reading H. V. Morton's Women of the Bible. Loved the chapter on 'Ruth, Martha and Mary'. Always inclined to Martha myself.'Vere Hodgson Henry Vollam MortonWomen of the BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library "Women the world over" and took back "Candles in the flame" and "Lighter side of school life["].'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ethel Alec-TweedieWomen the world over: a sketch both light and gay,...Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished Women [the World Over?]. Bed 8.30 ... Naval victory important.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ethel Alec-TweedieWomen the world over: a sketch both light and gay,...Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop the...Hilary Spalding Women's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Mary Shelley Charles MaturinWomen, ou Pour et ContrePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading volume four of "Wonderful Britain". It is attractively illustrated, particularly to an interned exile. What attracts me specifically, apart from the picture...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Wonderful BritainPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the eye [underlined]. Looked over Pulley's "Etymologica...John Cole anonWonders of the human bodyPrint: Book


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