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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
 
1900-1945'1st January 1929 (Tuesday) In the eveningthe usual German sing-song. I to bed early. Re-reading ?Back to Methuselah?. ?Back to Methuselah? (George Bernard Sha...Gerald Moore George Bernard ShawBack to MethuselahPrint: Book
1900-1945'4th January 1929. ?Back to Methuselah?. G. B. Shaw' Gerald Moore George Bernard ShawBack to MethuselahPrint: Book
1900-1945'Staying for a fortnight with Miss Heath Jones in Cornwall - where I read aloud to her a large selection of the works of Bernard Shaw, including the newly published "Back...Vera Brittain George Bernard ShawBack to MethuselahPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'One Friday afternoon I went to the [italics] Daily Herald [end italics] office to call on a friend. As I entered the building a taxi stopped at the door and I found G....Gilbert Keith Chesterton Gilbert Keith ChestertonBackfile of his own articles published in the "Dai...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding UnknownBackground to the Life of ChristPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read Dolly Richardson’s "Backwater"? If not, do. It is a book.'Arnold Bennett Dorothy M. RichardsonBackwaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
Francis E. Pollard R. C. SherriffBadger’s GreenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
Reginald H. Robson R. C. SherriffBadger’s GreenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
Victor Alexander R. C. SherriffBadger’s GreenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
Edgar Castle R. C. SherriffBadger’s GreenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
Howard Smith R. C. SherriffBadger’s GreenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
E. Mary Reynolds R. C. SherriffBadger’s GreenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
Elizabeth T. Alexander R. C. SherriffBadger’s GreenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
Mary Pollard R. C. SherriffBadger’s GreenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
Dorothy K. Goadby R. C. SherriffBadger’s GreenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
Mary E. Robson R. C. SherriffBadger’s GreenPrint: Book
1900-1945We woke up to-day to see the coast of Yemen, the Indian Ocean very blue, and were presently sailing into the bay of Aden. As I went into the saloon for passports, M...Stewart Henry Perowne Freya StarkBaghdad SketchesPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 4th. We both read Browning's Balaustion. Heracles the free, the joyous, the strong, the self-sacrificer, a grand creation.'...Alfred and Emily TennysonRobert BrowningBalaustionPrint: Book
1850-1899

[Charlotte Bronte to Sydney Dobell, 3 February 1854:]


'"Balder" arrived safely. I looked at him, before cutting his leaves, with singular pleasure [...]...

Charlotte Bronte Sydney DobellBalderPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reggie Smith, also a producer at the BBC, was married to the novelist Olivia Manning. She was to draw him with exquisite accuracy, and some bitterness, as Guy in her ser...Ralph Glasser Olivia ManningBalkan Trilogy, ThePrint: Book


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