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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'We are getting together a good library of 1 franc English books.'Harold Upcott unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday afternoon as I was lying reading in my hut the C.O. came in and told me I had to go to Warloy (behind Albert) to relieve the surgeon specialist.'Harold Upcott unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'I spent the day reading "Weekly Timeses" and sitting in Sheikh Muhammad's tent.' Gertrude Bell The Times [?weekly or Sunday edition]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Came to Damascus and read "Arabia Deserta" all the way. Still autumn in the Beqa', leaves brown and gold, gold and green on the poplars.' Gertrude Bell Charles M. DoughtyTravels in Arabia DesertaPrint: Book
1900-1945'We pitched the men's tent and lighted a great fire at which we dried ourselves — I was wet too. In a moment's sunshine we pitched the other tents, and then came th...Gertrude Bell William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was very hot and stuffy, thundery — and by dinner time I had a headache and went to bed early, but not to sleep. Turkiyyeh [a Circassian woman sent from the She...Gertrude Bell Acts of the ApostlesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sandstone all riven and broken, without water to smooth it. Great purposeless ruined gashes running up into the hills. We found our dulul here and camped on account ...Gertrude Bell George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father...Print: Book
1900-1945'I haven't quite finished Mrs Wharton. It's very good and readable as she always is I think. It was a great solace to me on the way. Also I had a volume of poems by Ruper...Gertrude Bell Edith Wharton?The Custom of the CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945' I haven't quite finished Mrs Wharton. It's very good and readable as she always is I think. It was a great solace to me on the way. Also I had a volume of poems by Rupe...Gertrude Bell Rupert BrookePoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm still in hospital but I've made a very rapid cure (I was pretty bad when I came) and I hope they will let me go back to Basrah in a day or two. I've been quite extra...Gertrude Bell Gilbert Murray[English verse translations of Greek plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'I'm still in hospital but I've made a very rapid cure (I was pretty bad when I came) and I hope they will let me go back to Basrah in a day or two. I've been quite extra...Gertrude Bell unknown[unspecified novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Tell Mother I loved having the "N.E. Gazette" with the account of the Winter Garden. It seems a long way off from Ur somehow.'Gertrude Bell North Eastern GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I left Baghdad 9 days ago and have been steaming slowly down the Tigris with the I.G.C. on his luxurious ship. I eat, sleep, read novels and talk to the General — ...Gertrude Bell unknown[unspecified novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'By the way who wrote the "Mirrors of Downing St"? Some of the things in it are very good.' Gertrude Bell Harold BegbieThe Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Refl...Print: Book
1900-1945'I've just been reading Mrs Asquith's book and I confess it leaves me bewildered. Unless my judgement has gone entirely astray, it is completely détraqué. She records con...Gertrude Bell Margot AsquithAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was delicious to sit outside my tent writing to you. The inhabitants of the village showed perfect manners and left me in peace; not so the sheep who kept bunting int...Gertrude Bell Lytton StracheyQueen VictoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've just read Lord Esher's book about Lord Kitchener which is a very interesting human document, isn't it. What a very big figure he just failed to be. Yet he did play ...Gertrude Bell Reginald (Viscount) EsherThe Tragedy of Lord KitchenerPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Florence Bell (and Mrs Herbert Richmond, née Elsa Bell)The Cat and Fiddle Book: Eight dramatised nursery ...Print: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Elizabeth von ArminVeraPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Elizabeth von ArminVeraPrint: Book


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