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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
 
1900-1945I read C.C. ['Cat's Cradle'] very carefully in a fortnight: about 50 pp. a day. It held me all right, though not quite so strongly as 'C'. As with 'C'., 'C. C.' is stron...Arnold Bennett Maurice BaringCat's CradlePrint: Book
1800-1849I read half the 6th book of Antoninus today ? so I can?t say, after all, perdidi diem [I have lost a day].Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of the prophets. ? They are clever & forcible; coarse eno...Elizabeth Barrett BeverleyLetter to the Archbishop of YorkPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of the prophets. ? They are clever & forcible; coarse eno...Elizabeth Barrett BeverleyTombs of the ProphetsPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849I read Mrs Rogers' Life and Letters with great profit. ... The life and letters of Mrs Rogers here made a great blessing to me, also conversation with a person who enjoy...Anne Lutton Hester Ann RogersSpiritual Letters Or A Short Account of the ExperiPrint: Book
1800-1849I read parts of scripture with reference to the Calvinistic controversy, & little else today. I am going thro? all the epistles, marking with my pencil every expression ...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians. I am getting tired of this commentary. Such underground dark passages before you get at anything worth standing...Elizabeth Barrett St John ChrysostomCommentary on the EphesiansPrint: Book
1800-1849I read the other half of Antoninus?s sixth book, - & half his seventh, besides. What a creature I am ? to spend my time in this way, between philosophy & folly. Anoninu...Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book
1700-1799I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captains over the Men, Esspeatialy the Sick, in a Most Shoc...John Yeoman Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomUnknown
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1800-1849		I read very seldom indeed having in the first place but very little time for it... and in the second place, Mr & Mrs A. having never offered to lend me any books except a...Ellen Weeton David BrewsterThe Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Conducted by D. BrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849I read yesterday in Mr. Joseph Clarke?s Sacred Literature, that Nonnus is an author whom few can read, & fewer admire. So that my opinion is nothing outrageous. I do no...Elizabeth Barrett Joseph ClarkeSacred LiteraturePrint: Book
1700-1799I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly...Francis Place [geometry text]Print: Book
1700-1799I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly...Francis Place WilliamsonEuclidPrint: Book
1900-1945I received your book some time ago, from the publishers. My life is made terrible by my 'Evening Standard' article. When I took the job on it was clearly understood tha...Arnold Bennett Louis Golding Day of AtonementPrint: Book
1900-1945I remember one morning, early, I found him in his study laughing uproariously: he was reading, in Proust's "Pastiches et Mélanges", the pastiche of Flaubert (and he had a...Joseph Conrad Marcel ProustPastiches et MélangesPrint: Book
1800-1849I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And when I read it, as I was a girl of fourteen not yet ver...Lady Louisa Stuart Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1900-1945I return the typescript of your book. ['Politicians and the Press'] You asked me to tell you whether I thought it was interesting. It is very interesting, and it is all...Arnold Bennett Max BeaverbrookPoliticians and the PressManuscript: typescript
1900-1945I sat at my table and studied verbs and nouns, wrapped in more clothes than I wore to climb the Matterhorn, and looked with a wary eye at the sunshine outside, dazz...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown Arabic language primer]Print: Book
1700-1799I sat in the Parlor; drank coffee and read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's...Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1900-1945I sat on my roof and went on with my manuscripts, distracted by bevies of women wanting medicines for what they call 'wind', i.e. pains from sitting in their perpet...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified Yemeni manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown


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