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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'Since leaving Oxford I have had quite a little opportunity for reading and have read all kinds of things, some of the better books being: Conan Doyle's "Micah Clar...Roderick Ward Maclennan Alexandre Dumas[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Since leaving Oxford I have had quite a little opportunity for reading and have read all kinds of things, some of the better books being: Conan Doyle's "Micah Clar...Roderick Ward Maclennan George A. Birmingham[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Since leaving Oxford I have had quite a little opportunity for reading and have read all kinds of things, some of the better books being: Conan Doyle's "Micah Clar...Roderick Ward Maclennan George Bernard Shaw[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Off parade there was little enough to do. La Thieuloye was a desolate hole, a mere hamlet with hardly a shop for miles ... Our barn was a fine roomy one and we wer...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands William Tufnell Le Queux[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Edgar Wallace[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Ivan Turgenev[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He had the daily paper folded under his arm with his forage cap or sidara, and his latchkey, as long and as heavy, and in fact an exact duplicate of mine, in his h...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'In the evenings, if I have no one else below, I climb upstairs to sit in comfort except for mosquitoes - enormous creatures with white rings round their legs - tha...Elinor Wight Gardner [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy this peaceful interval of sickness and read the works of Jane Austen, released from a fear of death which, ever present in this land of unknown diseases, s...Freya Stark Jane Austen[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Juliusz Slowacki[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Last night I sent a field service card just to let you know that I received the parcel alright on Sunday. It was packed very well. There was a lot of stuff in it, ...Anon Anon [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Well, I have got another change. Am on night duty again, but among the officers. Have been doing it just a week ... It is 5.45 now and I will soon take a cup of te...Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'This letter will probably not be finished this evening, for I am writing it in the YMCA hut at 6 o'clock and there is such a noise of chairs and tables being moved...Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday I was given half the day off. In the afternoon I went to my tent and lay down to read and sleep. In the evening I sat in the Salvation Army room and read...Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'This afternoon I was off duty so got into my blankets at 1.45 and read a book until I fell asleep, and woke at 4.30.'Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
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1900-1945		'In literature it is only in Vaughan, Traherne, and other mystics, that I find any adequate expression of that perpetual rapturous delight in nature and my own ex...William Henry Hudson Henry Vaughan[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, August 17, 1831: "Finished Cebes and began Theophrastus. Clouds -& imitation of yesterday's thunderstorm; and fortunately for my nerves, Virgil to Homer!...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Theophrastus[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read three of Spurgeon's sermons on the great themes of the day.'Thomas Buchanan Reginald Westgate Charles Haddon Spurgeon[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. June 16th, 1831: "I heard Stormy & Georgie read Homer & Xenophon — as usual, — tho’ I have not yet commemorated them here"Elizabeth Barrett Browning Homer[unknown]Unknown


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