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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 were in London at a quarter to 2. The evening paper contained a short communiqué saying we had attacked this morning around Albert. Apparently it is not on a very wid...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [London evening newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Another big push in to-day's paper on a 30-mile front from Morlancourt, south of Arras, right down to Lihons.'Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'We have a lovely mess, well warmed and, like all the town, lit with electric light ... Harley came in to dine and sent for his Times, which he got to-day. In it w...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I was up early and round to the machine-gunners about their piano for to-night's concert ... After making all the arrangements for a practice this afternoon, carrying th...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [Times Book Club Catalogue]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I was up early and round to the machine-gunners about their piano for to-night's concert ... After making all the arrangements for a practice this afternoon, carrying th...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [Times Book Club Catalogue]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'My astonishment was great when, after the National Anthem, the Colonel, who was standing beside me, turned to me and said, "I hear you have the Military Cross. Is it tru...Douglas Herbert Bell Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—"Exton Manor" by Archibald Marshall and "Justice" by Galsworthy, which I have...Douglas Herbert Bell Archibald MarshallExton ManorPrint: Book
1900-1945'This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—"Exton Manor" by Archibald Marshall and "Justice" by Galsworthy, which I have...Douglas Herbert Bell John GalsworthyJustice: A Tragedy in Four ActsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading "Snow Upon the Desert", by Miss Macnaughten, rather a jolly tale. Very good concert party here tonight, from the Canadian Corps.'Douglas Herbert Bell Sarah MacnaughtanSnow Upon the DesertPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read two books lately, one in French called "L'Éveil" and another by Una Silberrad called "John "Bolsover". We buy odd books in the village and pass them on when we have...Douglas Herbert Bell Maurice DeroureL'ÉveilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read two books lately, one in French called "L'Éveil" and another by Una Silberrad called "John "Bolsover". We buy odd books in the village and pass them on when we have...Douglas Herbert Bell Una L. SilberradThe Affairs of John BolsoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'Went for a long run this afternoon; tonight I am "lazing" in front of a fire with a pipe, a book, and two or three friends.'Douglas Herbert Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Weather very dud, nothing doing, might as well be at home.
After breakfast I spread myself out in front of our new open fire in the hut, and read pretty steadily o...		Douglas Herbert Bell Edward Verrall LucasCloud and SilverPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read Barbusse in trenches and he made me see things I had never seen before though they were before my eyes every day; yet his description bore the same relation to an...Stephen Lucius Gwynn Henri BarbusseLe FeuPrint: Book
1900-1945'If one read at all one was soon noticed. I lay in bed one night with a book I had bought at Smith's. They had a shop near our hut in Catterick Camp. It was S. R. Crocket...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Samuel Rutherford CrockettThe Smugglers: The Odyssey of Zipporah KattiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was a good time in the army before I knew what a whore was. We never asked the English master when we were doing the Faerie Queene, because of his cloth, and he...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Edmond SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been happier lately. [The other soldiers] have not called me "College" for a long time, and they do not interfere when I try to read.'Reginald Hugh Kiernan unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have had a weekend's C.B. Unshaven on parade ... from six to ten on Saturday and Sunday nights I had to double 600 yards to the guardroom, to report, every half-hour, ...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Mark Twain (pseud.)The Adventures of Tom SawyerPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant was a small chap, and all night was so tireless that I thought of Alan Breck Stewart in Kidnapped.'Reginald Hugh Kiernan Robert Louis StevensonKidnappedPrint: Book
1900-1945'I never feel any emotions now, except the great terrible desire always surging up to get away ... I was thinking a lot today of a book we had at school, Poems of To-d...Reginald Hugh Kiernan English Association Poems of To-day: An AnthologyPrint: Book


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