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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'The Woman Killed with Kindness is one of the most striking novels — not plays, though it's more of a play than anything else of his — I ever read.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas HeywoodA Woman Killed with KindnessPrint: Book
1800-1849'Farewell to...' 'Fare thee well! Tis meet we part, /...' 'July 6th 1835/Julia'Julia Alaric Alexander WattsA Woman's Farewell. Adapted to an Air by MozartPrint: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...] 		Francis E. Pollard David MitranyA working peace system: an argument for the functi...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- full of old ghosts; books half way to decomposition ...Virginia Woolf Mrs Humphry WardA Writer's RecollectionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read it then'. Virginia Woolf Mrs Humphry WardA Writer's RecollectionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've read one book since the war "A Yank At Oxford". I liked that.....'John Monk SaundersA Yank at OxfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today. I have, however, snatched 20 minutes for the first tw...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Year's ExilePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Well, Sir, I have read your novel, & I am ready to bet a guinea to a gooseberry that, if read by Street, it will not be refused by John Lane for reasons artistic. ? It ...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Year's ExileManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'I read 'A Year?s Exile' during the three hours? journey down here on Thursday afternoon, & have passed it on to Frank to review in Woman. As for me, I shall review it in...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Year's ExilePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 March 1842: 'I beg you at last to receive my very earnest thanks for the volume of graceful poetry which I received fro...Elizabeth Barrett James Russell LowellA Year's LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near M...Claire Clairmont William CobbettA Year's Residence in the United States of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Eustace's tour and think he is the best dissenter I have met with, rather prolix about churches, especially such as have nothing extraordinary about them.'Benjamin Newton John Chetwode EustaceA [classical] tour through ItalyPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is dificult to express the joy I felt at the arrival of the "Complete Works of M. Barnabooth".[...].The first reading of the "Journal Intime" makes an unforgettable i...Joseph Conrad Valéry-Nicolas LarbaudA.O.BarnaboothPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has just passed into Germany. L[eonard]. is in the customs...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceAaron's RodPrint: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'Mary Godwin LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book


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