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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'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.George Eliot [pseud.] W.G. TennemanManual of the History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Dog Beneath the Skin", a most peculiar play.'Hilary Spalding W.H. AudenDog Beneath the Skin, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'W.H. Bruce read an interesting paper on the history [of Switzerland] which was followed by soome supplementary remarks by C.E. Stansfield & a general discussion'W.H. Bruce W.H. Bruce[paper on Swiss history]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Stopped at home during the evening. Butler paid me a visit & read one or two capital speeches from Phillip's life of Curran.'John Buckley Castieau W.H. CurranLife of J.P. CurranPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National"....George Eliot (pseud) W.H. HarveyThe Sea-side BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the books. You are indeed very good to me. Hudson's volume is fine, very fine, infinitely loveable, and as one reads on, one feels one's affection i...Joseph Conrad W.H.(William Henry) HudsonA Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltsh...Print: Book
1850-1899'For a boy in a Lancashire mining village around 1880, where there were few books to read (other than twenty volumes of Methodist Conference minutes) W.H.G. Kingston's "D...William Lax W.H.G. KingstonDick Onslow Among the Red IndiansPrint: Book
1900-1945'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from thir...Victor Sawdon Pritchett W.J. Locke[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'6th January 1929. After tea Mrs Webster started knitting a jumper and we ?boys? read. My literature was a book by W. J. Locke, the title of which slips my mind (a fa...Gerald Moore W.J. Locke[?] The UsurperPrint: Book
1900-1945'Do not fail to get the Literary Supplement to the New York Times for Oct 4th & see W.L. Alden?s extraordinary appreciation of "Anna". He says it is the best novel of th...Arnold Bennett W.L. Aldenarticle/review of "Anna of the Five Towns"Print: Newspaper, Literary Supplement
1900-1945'[W.L. George] wrote a good little book on modern France. This is all I know of his work, except newspaper articles.' Arnold Bennett W.L. George Print: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring ...W.M. ThackerayThe History of PendennisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.'Vera Brittain W.N.P. BarbellionunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel Paterson & (better still) by W.R. Benet under the tit...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen W.R. Benet'Uncle Ford'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A meeting of the Club & a large number of guests met at Manor House Earley [?] on the kind invitation of Mr & Mrs Heelas on July 6 1908 to witness a []performance crosse...members of XII Book Club and friendsW.S. GilbertPalace of TruthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read a little book of verse entitled "Cage Without Grievance", by a "modern Scot", W.S. Graham. Montgomerie's gift; and inscribed on it by him is Marston's line: "I fear...William Soutar W.S. GrahamCage Without GrievancePrint: Book
1900-1945'[another of Owen's poetic influences was] Brooke's friend W.W. Gibson, whose "Battle" (1915) Owen read in December [1915]'Wilfred Owen W.W. GibsonBattlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 9th December. ?The Castaways? ? (W.W. Jacob)'. Gerald Moore W.W. JacobThe CastawaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsThe Monkey's PawPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsThe CastawaysPrint: Book


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