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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'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s...Jennie Lee Sigmund Freud Print: Book
1900-1945'Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems more entertaining than the sentimental pieties of "Ch...Winifred Holtby Christie's Old Organ, Jessica's First Prayer, A Pe...Print: Book
1800-1849'Even while exerting myself to the utmost on the farm, I was not without my own pleasure, for during my leisure hours I read all the books and especially those consisting...Robert White [unknown]'poetry and border ballads'Print: Book
1600-1699'Even while she spelled words and syllables, she spelled out Christ; for if she met with a free promise, or some good sentence, holding out Gods love to man, she would sa...Martha Hatfeild BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Evening - suitable readings'.John Cole unknown['suitable readings']Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Evening by Charlotte Smith Oh soothing hour, when glowing Day, ...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxCharlotte SmithEveningUnknown
1850-1899'Evening wrote to Billy[.] Mammy read to us a very amusing book called "The little savage".'Florence Bell Frederick Marryat The Little SavagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Evening [transcription of poem] James Montgomery. Weedon Nov 11th 1836.James MontgomeryEveningUnknown
1850-1899'Ever read Stendhal?s ?Physiologie de l?amour?? If not, do. 1 franc is the price. It is vivacious, epigrammatic, & full of common-sense. I think he must be a great man...Arnold Bennett StendhalDe l'amourPrint: Book
1700-1799'Ever since I have read "Rudolph of Wertenberg" I have more pleasure when I walk round this country, as it makes me remember on all that has happen in former times in thi...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown]Rudolph of WertenbergPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks for copy of "[The] Sepoy". Everything you write is a matter of most sympathetic interest to me; and in the case of this book I must say I enjoyed th...Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerThe SepoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks for the honour of the dedication; and for the copy [of "Figures of Several Centuries"] which reached me yesterday. I sat up with it of course. There ...Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsFigures of Several CenturiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks for the little book of fantasy and charm and sharp irony seasoning the tragic story of poor Loveday, who had no other name.[...] Its a gem in its way...Joseph Conrad Fryniwyid Tennyson JesseThe White Riband; Or a Young Female's FollyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks too for the "Life and Miracles" which I have just read for the second time.There is no one but you to render so poignantly the pathetic and desperate...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Brazilian Mystic, being the Life and Miracles of...Print: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Homer IliadPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Homer OdysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Epictetus Discourses of EpictetusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Longinus On the SublimePrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Plato DialoguesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every child was given a little volume called King Edward's Realm, bound in imitation crimson leather, which I found slow going. The fate of books is strange. Perha...Edmund Blunden [n/a] [n/a]Little FolksPrint: Serial / periodical


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