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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'I read the "Great Randolfo" in the train yesterday and began "Black Oxen" — both very good.' Gertrude Bell Gertrude AthertonBlack OxenPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading on board the life of Pasteur, provided by Sylvia. It would interest you both, especially you, for now that I come to think of it wriggling germs are ...Gertrude Bell René Vallery-RadotLa Vie de PasteurPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading on board the life of Pasteur, provided by Sylvia. It would interest you both, especially you, for now that I come to think of it wriggling germs are ...Gertrude Bell Pearson ChoateThe King who went on Strike Print: Book
1900-1945'Did you agree with the scheme the owners put before the coal commission? It looked to me very black if after all those nearly impossible, if not quite impossible, things...Gertrude Bell Ernest J. P. BennConfessions of a CapitalistPrint: Book
1900-1945' We shall go to Kish on the way back and if only the weather is nice it will be delightful. It has been raining in such torrents that I hope we may have a dry spell for ...Gertrude Bell Dante AlighieriLa Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Incidentally I have read the enchanting volume of Page's letters to President Wilson which Aunt Maisie [Stanley] angelically sent me. Is not he the best letter writer th...Gertrude Bell Burton Jesse HendrickLife and Letters of W. H. PagePrint: Book
1900-1945'The greatest pleasure to me was to go with May to her bedroom and read the 103rd Psalm and [share?] with her a special birthday prayer before she got up.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Psalm 103Print: Book
1900-1945'Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library "Women the world over" and took back "Candles in the flame" and "Lighter side of school life["].'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ethel Alec-TweedieWomen the world over: a sketch both light and gay,...Print: Book
1900-1945'Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library "Women the world over" and took back "Candles in the flame" and "Lighter side of school life["].'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ian Hay (pseud.)The Lighter Side of School LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished Women [the World Over?]. Bed 8.30 ... Naval victory important.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ethel Alec-TweedieWomen the world over: a sketch both light and gay,...Print: Book
1900-1945'Answer to prayer: [May] came in safe and early Read Fanny Burney (Court of George III)'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Constance HillFanny Burney at the Court of Queen CharlottePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Miss Burney George III illness + recovery'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Constance HillFanny Burney at the Court of Queen CharlottePrint: Book
1900-1945'Made my head ache reading + went to bed early.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Sister Edith remains and kindly helped me wind pink wool at night Read "what I found out" so long that I could not read any more!! so May hunted up wool for me to knit.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Alice Muriel WilliamsonWhat I Found Out in the House of a German PrincePrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Went to Library[.] Finished "What I found out".'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Alice Muriel WilliamsonWhat I Found Out in the House of a German PrincePrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Wrote to Albert [Albert Ruskin Cook, her son in Uganda] + posted. Mended skirt with brown wool. Read papers: Daily Mail and News.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily MailPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Wrote to Albert [Albert Ruskin Cook, her son in Uganda] + posted. Mended skirt with brown wool. Read papers: Daily Mail and News.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily NewsPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Paid Laundress and Daily Mail ... Elsie at ¼ to six. Supper at 7.15. Read + worked. Bed 9.10.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Read Rev:6 in Greek with Eva.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 6Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'May brought back from the Library Home of the Blizzard.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Douglas MawsonThe Home of the BlizzardPrint: BookUnknown


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