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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'Besides this [i.e. Sidney's "Arcadia"] I have read nothing lately, except a foolish modern novel which I read at one sitting — or rather one lying on the sofa, this af...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'We have had a book of Yeats' prose out of the library, and this has revived my taste for things Gaelic and mystic. Ask Mullan's if he knows a book called "The Rosacrut...Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact...Clive Staples Lewis George Sand[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg Gordon Bottomley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg Thomas Sturge Moore[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg H. G. Wells[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘You ask me, with a suggestion of triumph, what I … think of Nietzsche now? I have only now begun to read the man …’Charles Hamilton Sorley Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘I have started to read again, having read nothing all the closing months of last year. I have discovered a man called D. H. Lawrence who knows the way to write, and...Charles Hamilton Sorley David Herbert Lawrence[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘I saw Rupert Brooke’s death in the "Morning Post". The "Morning Post", which has always hitherto disapproved of him, is now loud in its praises because he has confor...Charles Hamilton Sorley Rupert Brooke[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Did not get up until 7A.M. as I lay in the bed reading ...'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]
1850-1899'I rec'd a letter and some newspapers from J. P. Prout with a letter enclosed from my wife. I read a good bit from the papers & then wrote this it is now time to go t...James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After reading a good bit I went to bed about 10 A.M.'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Got out of the mine about 6 A.M. had some tea & read the paper a bit & saw in the list of deaths, the death of Mary Ann wife of Lot Brewer. I think it is my old scho...James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went in & read a good bit from the news-papers then Bob his Wife & baby came in & we stayed chatting for a good while.'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got up about 7A.M. had some tea & commenced to read. I read a Christian Age & some from a book by Thos Guthrie, 'Man & the Gospel' which I enjoy very much. I then ...James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Unknown
1850-1899' ... read some papers to the old man ...'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]
1850-1899'I read a good bit to the old man then came in & had my tea & off to bed about 8-30 P.M.'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]
1850-1899'I wrote a letter and read some news to the old man ...'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Unknown
1850-1899' ... went to see the old man and read the newspaper to him ...'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mr P was in bed reading the Newspaper, P. Walker was a little better this morn then I went to see the old Peter who is also a little better. After breakfast Peter ...James Bennetts Williams Thomas De Witt Talmage[unknown]Print: Unknown


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