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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
 
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter Gustave Flaubert[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter Anatole France[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "C...prisoners of warWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "C...prisoners of warRupert Brooke[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "C...prisoners of warRudyard Kipling[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'A quotation from a book I am reading says: "The only way to waste time is not to enjoy it." How one realises that as an internee!'Thomas Kitching [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Webb, D.H. Lawrence and Adrian Bell. The commentary, is...prisoners of warMary Webb[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Webb, D.H. Lawrence and Adrian Bell. The commentary, is...prisoners of warD.H. Lawrence[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Webb, D.H. Lawrence and Adrian Bell. The commentary, is...prisoners of warAdrian Bell[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'To bunk about 8.0. Reading.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all "paternal parasites" as regards money - if I can do my share in the Scottish Renaissance perhaps I'll justify my p...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: especially is this necessary for any Scot - since a l...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Nietzsche is one of the very few philosophers who remain poets in the midst of their philosophising; perhaps he is the only one. His words are often as near to actual li...William Soutar Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'If one may judge from the young men and women in their twenties who call here - one must accept that exceptionally few of them have any interest in serious or solid read...Joseph Conrad[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.'John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book


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