the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1900-1945	‘Many thanks for your letter which greeted me on our weekly return to our old farmhouse behind the lines … I’m sending herewith—it strikes me it may interest you—a co...	Charles Hamilton Sorley	Thomas à Kempis	De imitatione Christi	Print: Book
	1900-1945	‘Our work and routine is still the same as ever. We are like the fielder who is put at long leg when a good batsman is at the wicket: not because the batsman will eve...	Charles Hamilton Sorley	Josephine Mary Ward	Horace Blake	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I received a commission within six months [of the declaration of war] and was posted to a battalion of the Green Howards, my local North Riding regiment, then trai...	Herbert Edward Read		The New Age	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The mess was ... the only place where, that bitter winter, one could read in comfort ... One Sunday afternoon I took down with me a book I had just bought—Butler's...	Herbert Edward Read	Samuel Butler	Erewhon Revisited	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'One other item of news I must not forget to tell you. Aylwin came. I read it (in the trenches, of all incongruous places) and it conquered me. I've nothing at all ...	Herbert Edward Read	Theodore Watts-Dunton	Aylwin	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rested all morning. Read "Times" and rested again after lunch.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	unknown	The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Read "Kim". Heard from S by last post.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	Rudyard Kipling	Kim	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Walked Marshy Meadows by myself. Read "Kim".'	Verena Vera Pennefather	Rudyard Kipling	Kim	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Walked Clausin with Herr Byng. Read "A Midsummer Day's Dream". Wire from Mrs Henderson.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	H. B. Marriott Watson	A Midsummer Day's Dream	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Walked Marshy Meadows. Read "Light that Failed."'	Verena Vera Pennefather	Rudyard Kipling	The Light that Failed	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Marshy Meadows by short cut and read Star Dreamer.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	Agnes Castle	Star Dreamer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read Pearl Maiden.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	H. Rider Haggard	The Pearl Maiden	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read Life of Jane Austen. Unpacked.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	James Austen-Leigh	A Memoir of Jane Austen	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Wrote to Maysie. Read Jungle Book.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	Rudyard Kipling	The Jungle Book	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After lunch sat in study read paper and "The Sowers."'	Verena Vera Pennefather	Henry Seton Merriman	The Sowers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Tidied room and read Outdoor World. Wrote to Sommy.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	n/a n/a	The Outdoor World	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Read "a Welsh Witch". Wrote to Claude, Maysie and Mother.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	Allen Raine	A Welsh Witch: A Romance of Wild Places	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read "A Welsh Witch". Walked to the church to meet Miss Jenner.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	Allen Raine	A Welsh Witch: A Romance of Wild Places	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rested all the afternoon and evening. Read Andromeda.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	Charles Kingsley	Andromeda	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read L'Isle Inconnue with Sommy.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	Guillaume Grivel	L'Isle Inconnue	Print: Book

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