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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‘The next book for you to read is "A Knight on Wheels". It is great. I, with the inherited diffidence of my distinguished Grandma, must say I could never do anything ...Wilfred Owen Ian HayA Knight on WheelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I received your two letters on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. I had not thought that your love for me is as great as it is and that you have loved me ever since ...Dora Willatt Ian HayA Knight on WheelsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922: 'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume comes in very handy. Last night I started on vol 2 [A...Virginia Woolf Marcel ProustA l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleursPrint: Book
1700-1799Anne Damer, travelling in France, to Mary Berry, 24 April 1791, on encounter with de Broc, the mayor of Bayonne, 'the most ridiculous [italics]personage[end italics] that...Anne Damer de BrocA L'Orateur FoxManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frances Hodgson BurnettA Lady of QualityPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wonder whether you have read that first book of Miss Eyre's ("Mary Eyre" of the Times) "A Lady's Walks in the South of France". What a disgusting book it is, - a beggi...Harriet Martineau Mary GroteA Lady's Walks in the South of France in 1863Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last m...		Francis E. Pollard Percy Bysshe ShelleyA LamentUnknown
1900-1945Some marginalia in pencil in English on page 5 only.Vernon Lee Henry Noel BrailsfordA League of NationsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] Lear of the Steppes"), "perfectly superfluous chatter...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Lear of the Steppes and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Faust"] Turg[enev] wrote in French I believe first an...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Lear of the Steppes and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lec...Edward Morgan Forster John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord ActonA Lecture on the Study of HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Lord Acton Some "shining precepts" for the historical student] E. M. Forster transcribes passage opening 'Keep men and things apart; guard against the ...Edward Morgan Forster John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord ActonA Lecture on the Study of HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 March 1840: 'I cant agree about the Legend, I read the whole of it - & although your remark upon the versification seems...Elizabeth Barrett Leigh HuntA Legend of FlorencePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hu...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottA Legend of MontrosePrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday June 17th. [...] Read A Legend of Montrose.' ...Claire Clairmont Walter ScottA Legend of MontrosePrint: Book
1600-1699'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about his "Essay of Poesy" - and a letter in answer to th...Richard Flecknoe [?]A letter from a gentleman to the Hon. Ed. Howard, ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" ...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Conyers] MiddletonA letter from RomePrint: Book
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward Gibbon WakefieldA letter from Sydney, the principal town of Austra...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Wilkins and Visconti on the Elgin marbles. Wilkins' assertions that Visconti does not think the relievos on the frieze and the metopes to be the work of Phillias no...Rev. Benjamin Newton Ennio ViscontiA letter from the chevalier Antonio CanovaUnknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 31 May 1776:] 'As you are acquainted with all possible authors, pray be so good as to tell me who is the writer of a Letter to a ...Elizabeth Carter A Letter to a Young Nobleman Setting out on his Tr...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown


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