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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'I am writing now because I must?to congratulate you on the short stories on the Pall Mall Magazine, which seem to improve as they go on , & which certainly strike me as ...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsA Story of the Days to ComePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was very sorry to hear about the death of "A Student in arms", whose book I read last holidays as you may remember. I never met anything exactly like it before, it i...Clive Staples Lewis Donald HankeyA Student in ArmsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read Swinburne's "Jonson" which I will keep for you, it is quite excellent.'Gertrude Bell Algernon Charles SwinburneA Study of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1900-1945Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the keener / Mood shall be the more / As our might lessens...Edward Morgan Forster Arnold ToynbeeA Study of History (vol I)Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading this week a book by Swinburne from the Library, a "Study on Shakespeare". This is my first experience of his prose, and I think I shall make it the...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburneA Study of ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P...Harry McShane A.P. HazellA Summary of Marx's 'Capital'Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pasca...James Lackington Beilby PorteusA Summary of the Principle Evidences for the Truth...Print: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the copy of your book which I have read with the greatest of interest and pleasure.'Joseph Conrad James Johnston AbrahamA Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far EastPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas ThomsonA System of ChemistryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished Hey Groves' modern methods of treating fractures & excellent book. Started Saville's Clinical Medicine — 7 hrs. reading.'Albert Ruskin Cook Thomas Dixon SavillA System of Clinical MedicinePrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Marjorie [Cook's daughter] has lost her little gold locket. Reading Savile's Clinical Medicine.'Albert Ruskin Cook Thomas Dixon SavillA System of Clinical MedicinePrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Forged ahead with Savile's Clinical Medicine.'Albert Ruskin Cook Thomas Dixon SavillA System of Clinical MedicinePrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
Surgical Diagnosis – Martin
Tropical Diseases – Stitt
Abdominal Injuries – Morison & R.
Household ...		Albert Ruskin Cook Thomas Dixon SavillA System of Clinical MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.George Eliot [pseud.] John Stuart MillA System of LogicPrint: Book
1850-1899Hudson recalled how, preoccupied with the prospect of his mother's death and it effect on him: 'Then one day, with my mind in this troubled state, in reading George...William Henry Hudson George CombeA System of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Part III is 'the reconciliation', in Spencer's phrase, - a mean term between I and II, a minimistic retrospect on both.'Robert Louis Stevenson Herbert SpencerA System of Synthetic PhilosophyPrint: Book
1700-1799Sup'd by myself in own chamber. Read 'Tale of a Tub'. Bed 11...Gertrude Savile Jonathan SwiftA Tale of A TubPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Tale of Tub' 1 hour. Bed past 10.Gertrude Savile Jonathan SwiftA Tale of A TubPrint: Book
1700-1799"Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of...William Wordsworth Jonathan SwiftA Tale of a TubPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill informed stuff [...] seriously as criticism, even as des...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftA Tale of a TubPrint: Book


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