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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'Hoped to have 1" aiming rifle practice, but after getting up ammunition & lots of fuss we cleared off to lunch. Read during the afternoon & tea at 3.30.'Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1900-1945'Sketched till 10.45, & then went to the Captain's Cabin, where the P.M.O. gave us a long lecture on diseases. Lunch at 12.0, & afterwards I read in the Gun Room ti...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1900-1945'... nothing much to do all morning, except for a fairly short stay at General Quarters. There was nothing for me to do at all in the afternoon, so I simply sat in ...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1900-1945' ... foul morning ... altogether rotten. I came up for breakfast to find everyone feeling sick, & nothing to eat. After some time I partook of a frugal meal, in th...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1900-1945'... frightfully dull ... During the afternoon I went out to the after superstructure for a time & then came down to the Gun Room & read.'Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1900-1945'I woke up feeling extremely bored with life ... it was a foul day, like yesterday. I did exactly the same things ... During the forenoon the sea gave signs of goin...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read a lot of John Gielgud's autobiography. He is no writer but it is interesting nevertheless.' Vere Hodgson John GielgudEarly StagesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have been reading about Mrs Perugini, daughter of Dickens.'Vere Hodgson Gladys StoneyDickens and DaughterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Noel Coward's Present Indicative . . . very interesting.'Vere Hodgson Noel CowardPresent IndicativePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat by the fire and read the Ranee of Sarawak's biography. Cannot think why she had such awful daughters.'Vere Hodgson Sylvia BrookeSylvia of Sarawak: An AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat and read Antony, by Lord Lytton.'Vere Hodgson Victor LyttonAntony: A Record of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have just read The Kaiser and his English Relations by Benson. Most interesting.'Vere Hodgson Edward Frederic BensonThe Kaiser and English RelationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have just finished some recollections of Kipling called Something of Myself. I am horrified at his sufferings as a child. When not with the Burne-Jones family he was...Vere Hodgson Rudyard KiplingSomething of Myself for My Friends Known and Unkno...Print: Book
1900-1945'Now I am about to read Mrs Roosevelt's autobiography. Apparently she was a very shy child, and everyone said she would never draw attention anywhere!'Vere Hodgson Eleanor RooseveltThe Lady of the White House: An AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Train was very full. . . . I was fortified with sandwiches, apples from Brede, some knitting and a Wilkie Collins novel.'Vere Hodgson Wilkie Collins[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Stayed up reading H. V. Morton's Women of the Bible. Loved the chapter on 'Ruth, Martha and Mary'. Always inclined to Martha myself.'Vere Hodgson Henry Vollam MortonWomen of the BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Nearly finished the life of Tolstoy - very difficult person. Glad he was no relation of mine. Saints seem as difficult as geniuses . . . Tolstoy was both, and I don'...Vere Hodgson Emile DillonCount Leo Tolstoy: A New PortraitPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading a biography of Churchill - did not know much about his career, but going back into the past one can see how it has all grown and how very far-sighted a man he ...Vere Hodgson Carl Eric Bechofer RobertsWinston Churchill: Being an Account of the Life of...Print: Book
1900-1945'Went to Rye one lovely hot day. Glorious Sussex cottages covered with roses. Brought E. F. Benson's book with me. Lamb House, where he lived, had been bombed — but ...Vere Hodgson Edward Frederic BensonMiss MappPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading The Last Days of Paris by Alexander Werth, a journalist who kept a diary of those awful weeks.'Vere Hodgson Alexander WerthThe Last Days of Paris: A Journalist's DiaryPrint: Book


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