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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
 
1900-1945The Daily Telegraph interview with Mussolini makes me sick. What fools they are. Every word M. said was just vague nonsense: anyone who knows Italians can see how h...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945I am reading some Yemeni legends and tales. One nice one about two rival doctors, a good and a bad one: the King said he would take as his family physician the one ...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][Yemeni legends and tales]Unknown
1900-1945I have been studying the little pamphlet [on the Arabs] in the train and feel that, though you have improved the language, the whole thing is so ineffective that it...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][British propaganda pamphlet (anti-Italian) in Ara...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945I have just been reading a rather nice version of Genesis in Arabic. It says that Gabriel was sent to the Earth to bring a bit of clay for the making of Adam: but t...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Genesis)
1900-1945A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified manuscript belonging to Saladin]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified manuscript of the 8th century A.D.]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified manuscript stamped by the 4th Timuri...Manuscript: Codex, illuminated manuscript
1900-1945We went to St. Tropez to see my Alsatian friends and pushed on to lunch at Paradou, and found A. Besse very cheerful with 7 ladies (including ourselves) around him,...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][intelligence reports from Abyssinia]Unknown
1900-1945We woke up to-day to see the coast of Yemen, the Indian Ocean very blue, and were presently sailing into the bay of Aden. As I went into the saloon for passports, M...Stewart Henry Perowne Freya StarkBaghdad SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945Meanwhile I have been enjoying myself reading Anatole France and the philosophy of M. Jérôme Coignard. What a charming creation. 'Il meprise les hommes avec tendres...Freya Stark Anatole FranceLes Opinions de Jérôme CoignardPrint: Book
1900-1945I sat on my roof and went on with my manuscripts, distracted by bevies of women wanting medicines for what they call 'wind', i.e. pains from sitting in their perpet...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified Yemeni manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945I am getting hold of a copyist as there are various exciting manuscripts here and I can't deal with all myself. I have nearly finished one and it is full of useful ...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified Yemen manuscript]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945I have found what I hope is an unknown and useful manuscript of local history and am copying it out. It has a nice miracle recorded. Someone made fun of a holy man ...Freya Stark unknown unknownunidentified Yemeni manuscriptManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945The day's finds have been brought in, all the diggers so excited they rushed in with them to show me on my roof. There was a sort of communal grave with about six s...Freya Stark unknown unknowninscription on potteryManuscript: Graffito, inscription on pottery
1900-1945'Do you read H. G. Wells's vaticinations which are somewhat faliderol [sic] in the "Daily Mail"? Well there' some—a good deal of truth in them,and the reading class...William Henry Hudson H. G. Wells[articles in the Daily Mail]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945I meanwhile have been doing nothing except read Jane Austen. I have stopped seeing people for a week, as it hurts the voice to talk much, but had one visit from the...Freya Stark Jane AustenNovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancip...Freya Stark Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1900-1945I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancip...Freya Stark Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1900-1945I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancip...Freya Stark Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancip...Freya Stark Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book


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