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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'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison libra...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas [?] Hughes[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in "Dichtung und Warheit". Continued aloud Heine's "Salon". G. read Knight's studies of Shakspe...George Henry Lewes Thomas [?] Knight[studies of Shakespeare]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Thomas, First Baron Erskine[Collection of Speeches, perhaps Speeches of the H...Print: Book
1850-1899'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obl...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and FlorenceThomas, Lord MacaulayBiographiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading a little of the "Religio Medici". Just at the beginning he is talking about the Mysteries of Religion, and how he loves to lose himself in one...Emily Lytton Thomas, Sir BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1700-1799'borrowing a Hint from a Story in the [italics] Peruvian [end italics] Tales; I form'd from it the following Poem' [she then gives the text of a long poem called 'The Sta...Laetitia Pilkington Thomas-Simon GueuletteMille et une heures, contes peruviensPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was very good).'Thorne SmithunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 16 March 1850: 'I return Mr Thornton Hunt's note after reading it carefully.'Charlotte Bronte Thornton HuntNoteManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I ought to have written before, dear Hunt, to thank you for the Foster Brother, which pleased me very much. The sincerity and earnestness of the author gives anim...Mary Shelley Thornton HuntFoster Brother, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Thornton WilderBridge of San Luis ReyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had not known Thornton Wilder, though I had been among the thousands who read "The Bridge of San Luis Rey".'Vera Brittain Thornton WilderBridge of San Luis Rey, ThePrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved


[...]

...

Rosamund Wallis Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis ReyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39.
    A Bruce Dilks in the chair.

1. Minutes of last [two meetings] read & approved...		Roger Moore Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis ReyPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe...Emrys Daniel Hughes Thorold RogersSix Centuries of Work and WagesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure ClassPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Thucydides  Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Copious MS notes and doodles throughout. First date "Trevelyan May 1852". One sketch is a drawing of "Alice [his sister] opening a box of soldiers. An anticipation of the...George Otto Trevelyan Thucydides De bello PelloponesiacoPrint: Book
1850-1899'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He ...Oscar Wilde Thucydides  Print: Book
1900-1945'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read...Tiberius GYour M.PPrint: Book
1500-1599'and then reed of Bright of Mallincocolie, and then went to supper'Margaret Hoby Timothy BrightA treatise of melancholie, containing the causes t...Print: Book


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