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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'Dined on soup and chicken at 5. Read Whymper's book. Cold and mist all round. Decide on an easy day tomorrow as I rather feel the effects of the first day's gymnastics. ...Gertrude Bell Edward WhymperScrambles among the Alps in the years 1860-69Print: Book
1900-1945'Lovely fine day — sat out wrapped up and read Freeman and did Italian with Hugo till he felt uncomfy and went down.'Gertrude Bell Edward Augustus FreemanunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'We saw dimly some of the lovely African coast. Lots of porpoises lying on the surface of the water, lazily turning up a fin. Hugo and I sat all morning in the sun readin...Gertrude Bell George Grote?History of GreecePrint: Book
1900-1945'Perfectly fine and calm again. Father read us the finished article [on Trade Unions] to our great admiration. Then we did Italian and I read Sicilian history and a littl...Gertrude Bell ?Edward Augustus ?Freeman?A History of Sicily from the earliest timesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Perfectly fine and calm again. Father read us the finished article [on Trade Unions] to our great admiration. Then we did Italian and I read Sicilian history and a littl...Gertrude Bell Hugh Bellunknown Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Cloudy but very pleasant. Sighted Gozzo [Gozo] about 10. Read Thucydides and packed. Very amusing watching Gozo with its high perched little towns and terraced fields ru...Gertrude Bell ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'The storm came up on us and lightning began so we turned back. Past a grove of lemons and through a farm yard where a woman showed us her miserable baby eaten up with Ma...Gertrude Bell George Eliot (pseud.)MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am housed in a sleeping carriage of 2 compartments of wh[ich] Mr Hatton has the other. Most comfy. Wrote my diary and read "Adam Bede".' Gertrude Bell George Eliot (pseud.)Adam BedePrint: Book
1900-1945'We ran down the S coast of Asia Minor, beautiful hills with snow on them. Printed and toned photographs; after tea sat on deck and read Mr Browne's Bubi book.' Gertrude Bell Edward Granville BrowneThe Babis of PersiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat on deck and read Buddhist Birth Stories and slept.' Gertrude Bell anonBuddhist birth stories: or Jātaka tales. The...Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished the "Birth Stories" and began "La Mort des D....." which seems excellent.' Gertrude Bell Dmitry Sergyeevich Merezhkovsky?La Mort des Dieux: Le roman de Julien l'Apostat Print: Book
1900-1945'Quite warm but most agreeable. Talked to Mr Robertson about Justice and Maeterlinck and read some of the "Upanishad" book. Ditto after lunched [...]. Gertrude Bell unknownUpanishadsPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was explained to all "She is of the Sahib people, she gave in my house 4 annas and to a man in the street 2 annas, she has come for the purpose of seeing: Now she goe...Gertrude Bell The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Into white clothes but it was not very warm. Read Shway Yoe all day and played Bridge after dinner.' Gertrude Bell Shway Yoe (pseud. Sir George Scott)The Burman: His Life and Notions Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell Gwendolen Trench GascoigneAmong Pagodas and Fair LadiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell Rudyard KiplingunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell John Murray (ed.)A Handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Cey...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)Those Delightful AmericansPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jolted back to Nyaungu and got in soon after tea. Had tea, read and finished La Mort des Dieux and wrote to Uncle George.' Gertrude Bell Dmitry Sergyeevich MerezhkovskyLa Mort des Dieux: Le roman de Julien l'ApostatPrint: Book
1900-1945'Very stuffy and hot though the temp. only 83. Played Bridge with Mrs Foster and Mr Grier and read Worsfeld's [sic] book on Java.' Gertrude Bell W. Basil WorsfoldA visit to Java: with an account of the founding o...Print: Book


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