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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'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Marie CorelliSorrows of Satan, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Florence L. BarclayFollowing of the Star, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Inspired by the novels of Baroness Orczy about the Scarlet Pimpernel, I wrote a piece about Robespierre. O Robespierre, thou sea-green immobile, Thy soul, deep-stain...Charles Causley Emma Orczy[Scarlet Pimpernel novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Siegfried SassoonWar PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Robert Graves[war poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Edmund Blunden[war poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Wilfred Owen[war poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley George OrwellRoad to Wigan Pier, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley Wystan Hugh Auden Print: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley Stephen Spender Print: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley Cecil Day-Lewis Print: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley Louis MacNeice Print: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley Christopher IsherwoodGoodbye to BerlinPrint: Book
1900-1945"July 19 1909. Ah me. I was reading this soon after dear little Paul died." [Paul = grandson of George Otto Trevelyan.]. This after a section of Caligula "quorum dou infa...George Otto Trevelyan Caius Suetonius TranquillusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS dates of reading: "Feb 13 1907 Welcombe"; "Nov 10 1909 Rome (Read in one day)"; "June 1915 Welcombe"; "October 1921 Wallington Have read the Euthyphron 6 times in...George Otto Trevelyan Plato Dialogues
1900-1945Many MS dates of reading incl. "Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903." George Otto Trevelyan Homer IliadPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes; multiple dates of reading , incl. "Sept 15 1915 Wallington"; "July 3 1922 A glorious winter"; "Finished Herodotus, all of him, once again this day Sept....George Otto Trevelyan Herodotus WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905; May 12 1918 (at Welcombe). He notes the dates when ...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Demosthenes With English notes by the Rev. Arthur ...Print: Book
1900-1945Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read Demosthenes (1836, 1837). Several references to the...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The Oly...Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to read ...The marks on the outer margin are copied from ...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes in MidiamPrint: Book


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