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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'And woke at 7 [she had been sleeping on deck] — no nonsense about swabbing down the decks here! Very hot and steaming and the smell downstairs appalling. Read the ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)A Voyage of ConsolationPrint: Book
1900-1945'After lunch we went to our rooms and read novels till 4.45 when we found an excellent tea in the big drawing room. Scones to which we did ample justice. Sir F[rank Swett...Gertrude Bell unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sir F[rank Swettenham] lent me two of his books to read: "Unaddressed Letters" and "Malay Sketches".[...] Excellent dinner [on board Dutch ship] with funny Dutch peas an...Gertrude Bell Flora Annie SteelOn the Face of the WatersPrint: Book
1900-1945'The coast of Sumatra is very low — we could see it as a belt of trees on the water. Felt very slack before dinner and went to sleep. It got hot again. Read some of...Gertrude Bell Frank SwettenhamUnaddressed LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read some of Schultze's book on Java, lent me by Herr v Ditman. We got in unexpectedly early, about 3. The port of Tanjon Priok has outer roads where some English mercha...Gertrude Bell unknown [?]SchultzeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'First I must tell you that I have read, with immense satisfaction, the "Minor Moralist". It is excellent. I think perhaps the best of all is the essay on Manners. In my ...Gertrude Bell Florence BellThe Minor Moralist: Some essays on the art of ever...Print: Book
1900-1945'In parenthesis, I hope you'll like Mrs Sara Jeannette [Duncan]. I thought her charming and she was so kind to us [in Calcutta]. She longs to know you. Read "A Voyage of ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)A Social departure: How Orthodocia and I went roun...Print: Book
1900-1945'Delicious day, bit of a roll, following wind pretty strong. Sat on deck all morning and read Bevan's "Scheurus"[??], which I finished, while we passed down Corsica [Cors...Gertrude Bell BevanunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lovely hot day. Read Oppenheim and played Bridge after lunch.'Gertrude Bell Max von OppenheimVom Mittelmeer zum persischen Golf durch den Haurä...Print: Book
1900-1945'Extremely hot even at Therapia. Back at 7 and dined at home and read the "Marriage of William Ashe".' Gertrude Bell Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) WardThe Marriage of William Ashe Print: Book
1900-1945'I stayed with Sir Alfred Lyall for a couple of days on my way north [to Middleborough]. He gave me the proofs of his life of Lord Dufferin to read which was rather inter...Gertrude Bell Alfred C. LyallThe life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. Manuscript: Sheet, proofs
1900-1945'This morning I read till 11 about Byzantine MSS which I'm going to see at the Bibliothèque Nationale; then I went shopping with the Stanleys and bought a charming little...Gertrude Bell unknown Print: Book
1900-1945'This morning, [...] I went to the Bibliothèque Nationale. [Saloman] Reinach [editor of the "Revue Archéologique"] had given me a letter to one of the directors and I was...Gertrude Bell unknown Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'After dinner it was warmer and I sat on deck and read "Les Cosaques". I finished Putnam Neale's "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" in the afternoon, a curious book.' Gertrude Bell unknownLes CosaquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'After dinner it was warmer and I sat on deck and read "Les Cosaques". I finished Putnam Neale's [sic] "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" in the afternoon, a curious book.'...Gertrude Bell B. L. Putnam WealeIndiscreet Letters from Peking: being the notes of...Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Les Cosaques" and began "Il Santo" which is rather dull reading. Saw a good many swallows some of which rested on the ship.'Gertrude Bell Antonio FogazzaroIl SantoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Back to the kaik [?caique] where I lunched but it was too windy to go on to Budrum so I returned sadly to Kuluk sat on the balcony in the sun and read Mr Ballard's novel...Gertrude Bell unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent the morning reading Father's Iron and Steel address and watching the camp being pitched and correcting my German [see additional information] proofs. After lunch w...Gertrude Bell Hugh BellPresidential AddressPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I felt rather lonely and therefore went out and measured 1 and 12 [sites] (which we had had cleared in the morning) and afterwards drew them out till tea. Read the "Spec...Gertrude Bell SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The ... grandiloquent "education programme" we were able to satisfy sufficiently. A number of the "boys" were barely literate and Miss Nettleton could deal with the thre...Irene Nettleton Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book


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