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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
 
1850-1899'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's "Classical Dctionary" "Fell into m...Alfred Edward Housman [unknown][book on astronomy]Print: Book
1900-1945'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birth control , which she gratefully read'.Gladys Teal Marie Stopes[book on birth control]Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by be...Antonia White Field[book on child psychology]Print: Book
1900-1945'I had read about this country [China] with its forty centuries of history - more or less static, but which, at the present time, is passing through the most momentous tr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][book on China]Print: Book
1700-1799'A propos to Gardening he once advised me to buy myself some famous Book upon the Subject, and read it says he attentively, but do not believe it' Samuel Johnson [book on gardening]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to James], I don't know [...] But I've read a charming ...Henry James Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson[book on Greek history]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.George Eliot [pseud] Emile Du Bois Reymond[book on Johannes Mueler]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'George Eliot [pseud] Hermann von Helmholtz[book on music]Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Watson[book on Philip of Spain]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading a book on Pneumatics and been thinking of making an Anemometer of my own invention do not know if it would succeed, and I have great doubts of my ever attempting...Albert Battiscombe [unknown][book on pneumatics]Print: Book
1850-1899'[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a pleasure even to open, - it, - & the faces themselve...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][book on portraits of Dante]Print: Book
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually...Margaret Powell Marie Stopes[book on sex]Print: Book
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually...Margaret Powell Havelock Ellis[book on sex]Print: Book
1900-1945The people in the beds near me also kept quiet during the days before the operation, when I lay busily reading about South Arabia, and this delicacy I have always r...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][book on South Arabia]Print: Book
1800-1849Visit from cell to cell: '15. A farm labourer, of good capacity, who, having mastered here the alphabet and the art of reading, had from the library an account of our ...anon [unknown][book on the Protestant martyrs]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but I found it was a shilling and threepence and I had t...Edwin Muir [unknown][book on Wallace and Bruce]Print: Book
1900-1945'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it worth it?'Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen [unknown][book on wild flowers]Print: Book
1800-1849'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very near to a case I read, long since, in the Trials of W...George Crabbe [unknown][book on witchcraft trials]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot tell you how much use it has been to me; my paper mark...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [book on Yorkshire]Print: Book
1850-1899'I enclose another review. Fancy Eton masters setting my book as a classic to turn into Latin verse.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical


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