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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'But my great excitement was reading your stories. Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve....Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneA Man and Some OthersPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. ...Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneThe Open BoatPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'But nobody knew when they (the poems) were meant to come to an end; therefore the applause always came in the wrong place, either too soon or too late; either the poem c...Vita Sackville-West Edith Sitwell[poems]Unknown
1900-1945'But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a review of Liddell Hart's "T.E. Lawrence in Arabia a...Winifred Holtby Liddell HartT.E. Lawrence in Arabia and AfterUnknown
1600-1699'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and Plays, teaching me as I read, where to place my accen...Hannah Woolley unknownunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and Plays, teaching me as I read, where to place my accen...Hannah Woolley unknownunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'But the Armenians have no notion of transubstantiation, whatever accounts Sir Paul Rycaut gives of them (which account I am apt to believe was designed to compliment our...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Sir Paul RycautunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'But the book I am most pleased with is "Cicero de Finibus" - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his manner is so easy and elegant; and, besides, there is s...Thomas Carlyle CiceroDe Finibus Bonorum et MalorumPrint: Book
1800-1849'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Voltaire. This Mock-Heroic illustrates several things -Fi...Thomas Carlyle Voltaire [pseud.]La Pucelle d'OrleansPrint: Book
1600-1699'But the Mother ... coming one Morning early into her Chamber, she found her Reading in a Book in Bed, at which the Daughter being surprized, let it fall into the Bed, an...Ann Ketelbey Robert Persons (or Parsons)[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'But the real clue had been given by Howard Spring in an unpretentious article which appeared in "St. Martin's Review", the monthly magazine of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, ...Vera Brittain Howard SpringArticle in "St Martin's Review"Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'But these extraordinary accounts and discourses, together with the controversies between the mother and sons, made me think that they know many matters of which I was to...James Lackington unknownvariousUnknown
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the "Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely...Gertrude Bell Ernst Toller?Man and MassesPrint: Book
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the "Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely...Gertrude Bell George Bernard ShawSaint JoanPrint: Book
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the "Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely...Gertrude Bell Sarah Gertrude MillinGod's Step-ChildrenPrint: Book
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the "Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely...Gertrude Bell Martin S. BriggsMuhammadan Architecture in Egypt and PalestinePrint: Book
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the"Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely ...Gertrude Bell Elmer L. RiceThe Adding MachinePrint: Book
1600-1699'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron comin...Samuel Pepys John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ....Unknown
1600-1699'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron comin...Sir William Penn John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ....Unknown
1600-1699'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, and is a most excellent book and worth my buying'Samuel Pepys Jeremy TaylorA collection of polemical discourses, wherein the ...Print: Book


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