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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
 
1850-1899I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald Virgil Print: Book
1850-1899I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald Juvenal Print: Book
1850-1899I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald John WesleyJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald Horace WalpoleLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["]Albert Battiscombe Samuel MaunderThe Treasury of GeographyPrint: Book
1850-1899I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["]Albert Battiscombe Benjamin ThompsonPhilosophical Papers: being a collection of memoirPrint: Book
1800-1849I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, and I really believe a perfectly upright & honest man ...Sarah Harriet Burney William MitfordThe History of GreecePrint: Book
1900-1945I have been studying the little pamphlet [on the Arabs] in the train and feel that, though you have improved the language, the whole thing is so ineffective that it...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][British propaganda pamphlet (anti-Italian) in Ara...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture characters will impress upon many minds an important portion ...William Ewart Gladstone Margaret OliphantJerusalem: Its History and HopePrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a little work in the mornings. Margaret Oliphant A.P. StanleyA Selection from the writings of Dean StanleyPrint: Book
1800-1849I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, must be, - seeking only to convince the human reason...Elizabeth Barrett Dr CardDiscoursePrint: Book
1800-1849I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, must be, - seeking only to convince the human reason...Elizabeth Barrett CardSermon on the Athanasian CreedPrint: Book
1900-1945I have found what I hope is an unknown and useful manuscript of local history and am copying it out. It has a nice miracle recorded. Someone made fun of a holy man ...Freya Stark unknown unknownunidentified Yemeni manuscriptManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945I have just been reading a rather nice version of Genesis in Arabic. It says that Gabriel was sent to the Earth to bring a bit of clay for the making of Adam: but t...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Genesis)
1900-1945I have just borrowed a copy of 'Ulysses'. It appears to me to be jolly good, and it is certainly the most obscene genuine literature ever published, not excepting Juvena...Arnold Bennett James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945I have just done a review of a charming book on the Libyan desert by a man called Bagnold who first proved that one can motor up sand dunes. Did you know the Libyan...Freya Stark Ralph A. BagnoldLibyan Sands: Travel in a Dead WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945I have just read a 1/- book — History of our own Times 1885-1913. It is a kind of Lords Modern Europe written in a somewhat different style and embracing the whole ...Arthur Morris George Peabody GoochHistory of Our Time, 1885-1913
1900-1945I have just started my “Dombey & Son” having at last reached a place where books are not very plentiful. But it is not long enough to last for many a day.Arthur Morris Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1900-1945I have just written an introduction to a posthumous work of George Sturt’s (who generally wrote under the name of George Bourne—very good. I mean really). In order to wr...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Small Boy in the SixtiesPrint: Book
1900-1945I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you are much more likely to be right than I am. 'A Gent...Arnold Bennett Ivan Alexeyevich BuninThe Gentleman from San FranciscoPrint: Book


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