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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'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious al...Harry West Sigmund Freud Print: Book
1900-1945'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p...Ethel Mannin Sigmund Freud[unknown-works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s...Jennie Lee Sigmund Freud Print: Book
1900-1945'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th...Elizabeth Ring Sigmund Freud Print: Book
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....Charles Spencer Chaplin Sigmund FreudPsychoneurosisPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysi...T. H. White Sigmund FreudIntroductory Lectures on Psycho-AnalysisPrint: Book
1900-1945'[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexuality"were available.'May Sinclair Sigmund FreudThe Psychopathology of Everyday LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexuality" were available.'May Sinclair Sigmund FreudThree Essays on SexualityPrint: Book
1900-1945'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Havelock Ellis and Norman Haire, who had taken their cue fr...Lawrence Durrell Sigmund Freud[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read Freud's "Introductory Lectures".'Sigmund FreudIntroductory LecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945[I am reading] 'An endeavour to see whether or not war can sort of be got under control for the future. (Freud; War & Death)'Sigmund FreudWar and deathPrint: Book
1900-1945'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scientific detachment they advocate, for the life of me I...Sigmund Freud Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 2 December 1939: 'Began reading Freud last night; to enlarge the circumference. to give my brain a wider scope: to make it objective, to get outside. Thus defeat...Virginia Woolf Sigmund FreudunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivalence as Freud calls it. (I'm gulping up Freud).'Virginia Woolf Sigmund FreudunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert ...Virginia Woolf Sigmund FreudGroup PsychologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The German book is getting praise rather than censure: I was about sending Alick a copy of the last Examiner Newspaper, where it was rather sensibly criticised. The man...Thomas Carlyle Signed as 'Q' Review of 'German Romance' by Thomas CarlylePrint: Serial / periodical
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his Tusculan villa, i.e. at his father's house in Saffron...Gabriel Harvey Sigonius unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'... he devotes a whole serious and excellent essay to an exploration of the fame of Silas Hocking, who wrote novels calculated to please "the taste of the Methodist mill...Arnold Bennett Silas HockingunknownPrint: 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 Silas Hocking[novels]Print: Book
1600-1699'But I will find time to get it read to me - and I did get my wife to begin a little tonight in the garden, but not so much as I could make any judgement on it.'Elizabeth Pepys Silas TaylorThe Serenade, or DisappointmentManuscript: Unknown


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