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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'Meeting held at Oakdene Jan 23rd 1931
S A Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 After supper Bernard Shaw’s “You never Can te...		E. Dorothy Brain Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene Jan 23rd 1931
S A Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 After supper Bernard Shaw’s “You never Can te...		Mary E. Robson Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat. Read Play You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw & Odd Things by Dolf Wyllarde. Ev Badminton with Bolton.' William Thomas George Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'I cannot understand the small sale of 'Felix' ['Young Felix'] in this bloody country.' Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonYoung FelixPrint: Book
1900-1945'[given an alternative text by the librarian, entitled 'Young People's First Book of Trees'] Every time the man came through the room I slipped the African book on to my ...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Young People's First Book of TreesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read...Tiberius GYour M.PPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect it to have one grievious fault that of introducing ...James Hogg Thomas HamiltonYouth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The other day I took up "Yvette". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!' Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantYvette and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia Voltaire [pseud.]ZadigPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale from Zadig. After refreshments F. E. Pollard gave us an...Mary Robson Voltaire [pseud.]ZadigPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'Mary Shelley VoltaireZadig, ou la destineePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Zadig.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin VoltaireZadigi ou la destineePrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in the frigid double-recognition scene) suprised me, a...Edward Morgan Forster Voltaire ZaidePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have read Zaide, which I do not admire, as it is calculated to undo all the good impressions that may have b...Catherine Talbot ?Jean ?de la ChapelleZaidePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]ZairePrint: Book
1800-1849Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into such a crown of glory, - of holy radiance, as the moral...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1800-1849'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the objects of this.'Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-makers, - that we cannot make a story, - Boz, Bulwer...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1850-1899'That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called "Zanoni", an occult love story written by an English nobleman named Edward Bulwer-Lytton. She read and re-rea...Lucy Maud Montgomery Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 March 1842: 'In regard to Zanoni, I think with you that there is much in it, one wd yearn to see cast out of it, in rev...Elizabeth Barrett Edward George Bulwer-LyttonZanoniPrint: Book


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