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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'I have read so much of the 19th century lately that I can scarcely restrain myself from writing in that manner - whether in prose or poetry - and the more I read, the mo...Vita Sackville-West unknown[nineteenth-century works]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'When I was about six, she decided that the time had come for me to learn to read. And that was when she made her mistake. Instead of merely sitting me down in front of P...Rosemary Sutcliff unknown[children's book]Print: Book
1900-1945'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Greek poetry, (I have just been reading some translati...Vita Sackville-West unknown[selections from a Greek Anthology]Print: Book
1900-1945'Oh - a propos of that, I've been absolutely engaged by a book about Knole, in which Eddy is described as "author and musician" and I am described as "the wife of the Hon...Vita Sackville-West unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I cannot, owing to poetical (prose poetical) afflatus, C...Robert Louis Stevenson unknownlaw booksPrint: Book, Textbooks on Scottish Law, including Civil Law.
1850-1899'I have been reading such lots of law, and it seems to take away the power of writing from me. From morning to night, so often as I have a spare moment, I am in the embra...Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[law books]Print: Book, Law books in the plural.
1850-1899'I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownmaterial about BurnsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled "The Evolution of World Peace," restored to me that sense of ...Vera Brittain unknownThe Evolution of World PeacePrint: Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton unknownHistory of NaplesPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton unknownHistory of VenicePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton unknownSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Frances Sheridan to Samuel Richardson, 18 December 1757: 'I have seen some extracts from the History of the Magdalens, which gives me a curiosity to read the whole.'Frances Sheridan unknownHistory of the Magdalens (extracts)Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E...		Rosamund Wallis unknown[a specimen of Irish literature]Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E...		Elsie Sikes unknown[Irish Bulls]Unknown
1850-1899'I am much interested in De Quincey's letters, or rather in Dorothy Wordsworth's to him. There must have been something very engaging in him to have received such nice, w...Emma Darwin unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Life of a coster girl — one of six children, "She [mother] always liked to hear us read to her whilst she was washing or such like! and then we big ones had to lea... unknown Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'The man, a tall, thick-built, almost goodlooking fellow, with a large fur cap on his head, lived with his family in a front kitchen, and as there were, with his mother-i... unknown Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Quite warm but most agreeable. Talked to Mr Robertson about Justice and Maeterlinck and read some of the "Upanishad" book. Ditto after lunched [...]. Gertrude Bell unknownUpanishadsPrint: Book
1900-1945'After lunch we went to our rooms and read novels till 4.45 when we found an excellent tea in the big drawing room. Scones to which we did ample justice. Sir F[rank Swett...Gertrude Bell unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'This morning I read till 11 about Byzantine MSS which I'm going to see at the Bibliothèque Nationale; then I went shopping with the Stanleys and bought a charming little...Gertrude Bell unknown Print: Book


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