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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'[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read...Bonar Thompson Andre Gide[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin George Gissing[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin Gertrude Stein[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from thir...Victor Sawdon Pritchett George du Maurier[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from thir...Victor Sawdon Pritchett W.J. Locke[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from thir...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Hilaire Belloc[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.Bernard Kops Walt Whitman[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.Bernard Kops Emily Dickinson[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I wrought and read tell 4, and then I walked a litle abroad and, after I Cam home, read and [torn] tell all most 6'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1500-1599'and after I had reed some of bond of the suboth, I walked abroad: and so to supper'Margaret Hoby Bond[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Martin] suffered but little violent pain until the day he died. Up to that period he sought amusement in cheerful and entertaining books. A child of his landlady read t... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with madam - sometimes I read aloud from some work of hist...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding George Bernard Shaw[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.'George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher Emily Bronte[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher Anne Bronte[Unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a man whose name was Samuel winwright a man of the oth...Joseph Mayett [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Heard Harry read, but was very bilious & unwell'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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