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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'C. [David Lloyd George] says that Ibsen's Doll's House was the work that converted him to woman suffrage, & presented the woman's point of view to him.' David Lloyd George Henrik IbsenA Doll's HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... A Double ThreadPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you...Robert Southey Thomas ParnellA Fairy Tale, in the Ancient English Style Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to ArmsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and other words, and on effects of 'the world' upon stro...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to ArmsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woman should never shew the full extent of her regard, e...Anne Lister John GregoryA Father's Legacy to His DaughtersPrint: Book
1700-1799"Doctor Gregory's Book was published at Edin [r] just two Days before I left that Place...I read it, tho butin the hurried Way which the Eve of Journey allowed of...I als...Henry Mackenzie Dr John GregoryA Father's Legacy to his DaughtersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Abt 4 - I returned - and the time until 7 was taken up in reading "Gregory's Legacy"- He is one of my favorite authors- there is something so sincere & so pleasing witha...William Upcott John GregoryA Father's Legacy to His DaughtersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read "The First Fleet Family" with interest tempered by disappointment.' Thereafter follow two pages of largely negative criticism.Joseph Conrad George Lewis (Louis) Becke (and Walter Jeffrey)A First Fleet FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Both Jessie and I are very much struck with "[A] Fisher of Men".'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA Fisher of MenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thursday. Lovely day. Walked about good deal. Pollard arrived. Fr. Read A Fleet in Being by Kipling. All well.'William Thomas Rudyard KiplingA Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Chan...Print: Book
1800-1849'A Fragment' 'When to their airy hall... [printed first line 'When, to their...] 'Byron'Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronA FragmentPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'full of his living wit & wisdom, & not without some of his flippancy on solemn themes, however there is so much of manly justice in the whole argument that I could only ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Sydney SmithA Fragment on the Irish Roman ChurchManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" ...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Conyers] MiddletonA free enquiryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Soame Jenyns' "Origin of Evil". His grand solution of the introduction of evil is, that it could not have been prevented, by Omnipotence, without the loss of some ...Thomas Green Soame JenynsA free inquiry into the nature and origin of evilPrint: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before but I preferred to read the book first. I've read it twice with casts back here and there. The book is remarkable- and that it will be...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordA Free Lance of TodayPrint: Book
1800-1849Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of the seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for ...Charles Manby Smith William CobbettA French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the LePrint: Book
1700-1799I drew out of a book entitled 'a genealogical History of the Present Royal Families of Europe' the pedigree of several of them.Joseph Hunter Mark NobleA Genealogical History of the Present Royal FamiliPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: Copious marginal updates throughout the text. Many relate to entries and are linked to the item by an * in the text but some are for people not in the direc...James Ker John BurkeA general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage a...Print: Book
1850-1899'A thousand thanks for Johnson who is a brick.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles JohnsonA General History of the Robberies and Murders of ...Print: Book


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