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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'This morning, [...] I went to the Bibliothèque Nationale. [Saloman] Reinach [editor of the "Revue Archéologique"] had given me a letter to one of the directors and I was...Gertrude Bell unknown Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'After dinner it was warmer and I sat on deck and read "Les Cosaques". I finished Putnam Neale's "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" in the afternoon, a curious book.' Gertrude Bell unknownLes CosaquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Back to the kaik [?caique] where I lunched but it was too windy to go on to Budrum so I returned sadly to Kuluk sat on the balcony in the sun and read Mr Ballard's novel...Gertrude Bell unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm still in hospital but I've made a very rapid cure (I was pretty bad when I came) and I hope they will let me go back to Basrah in a day or two. I've been quite extra...Gertrude Bell unknown[unspecified novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'I left Baghdad 9 days ago and have been steaming slowly down the Tigris with the I.G.C. on his luxurious ship. I eat, sleep, read novels and talk to the General — ...Gertrude Bell unknown[unspecified novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Enjoyed reading war news and papers.'Albert Ruskin Cook unknownunknownPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Telegraph cable
1800-1849'We breakfasted with Miss Seymour; 36 and, after writing and reading, we started at a quarter to eleven with her and our Highland party.'Queen Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'A misty, rainy morning. Had not slept very soundly. We got up rather early, and sat working and reading in the drawing-room till the breakfast was ready, for which we ha...Queen Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'We sat till half-past ten working, and Albert reading, — and then retired to rest.'Prince Albert unknownunknownPrint: Poster, Unknown
1800-1849'Albert went into Dublin again after luncheon, and I wrote and read, and heard our children say some lessons.'Queen Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Poster, Unknown
1800-1849'I never saw our good children looking better, or in higher spirits. I contrived to give Vicky a little lesson, by making her read in her English history.' Princess Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Book, Poster
1900-1945'In afternoon Linder and I went to AVESNES to buy books and wine. Home by a very swift French car which put the wind up us both.'Martin Wentworth Littlewood unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. As usual. Walking Round and Reading.'William Thomas unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Even my little 'Oriente Moderno', the best paper on current Eastern affairs I know, is now becoming propagandist in a disguised way. The Abyssinian business makes m...Freya Stark unknownOriente ModernoPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled...Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown (trad)Jack The Giant KillerPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Book Club to look at the Reviews ... have you seen the ...Dorothy Wordsworth variousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annua...William Wordsworth VariousAnnual AnthologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bardship is applauded far beyond my Deserts ... [the] cr...George Gordon, Lord Byron VariousMonthly Literary RecreationsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Evening. - I had a straggling number of the E[dinburgh] ...George Gordon Lord Byron VariousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no paper but [James] Perry's [Morning Chronicle] and tw...George Gordon, Lord Byron variousMorning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper


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