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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[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 VariousModern Short StoriesPrint: Book
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 VariousBest Sporting StoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading the new Edinburgh and much like the first article. I wonder who wrote it. The one on Ireland I like, except the sad party stuff in the last 3pp.'Harriet Martineau variousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'Katherine Mansfield variousThe Oxford English DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read about one book per day.'John H.S. Craig variousvariousPrint: Advertisement, Book, Form, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster, Serial / periodical, Unknown
1600-1699A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engagement with text in the form of various marginal annot...John Susan variousMiscellany of verseManuscript: Codex
1600-1699A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engagement with text in the form of various marginal annot...John Nutting variousMiscellany of verseManuscript: Codex
1800-1849'Even eight-year-old Willy [Godwin] went once in a while to hear his Papa [William Godwin]'s friend [S. T. Coleridge] speak [in London Philosophical Society lectures, 18 ...William Godwin jr variouslecture on 'The Influence of Government on the Cha...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Pamphlets.'Mary Shelley various[pamphlets on Irish politics]Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Qu...Robert Southey variousPoems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornw...Print: Book
1900-1945'Together Edward and I looked at "The Times History of the War", picked out a newspaper paragraph stating that the total estimate of European war casualities was already ...Vera Brittain variousThe Times History of the WarPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have fallen in love with the Charles of Orleans period and cannot get enough of it. I see six essays at least, on single characters: Charles, Rene of Anjou, Jacques Co...Robert Louis Stevenson Various[Texts by or about 15th-century French literary an...Print: Probably books and articles.
1850-1899'[…] I keep reading XVth Century […]'Robert Louis Stevenson various[works on the fifteenth century]Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'The Lambtons sent me the last Edinburgh, prematurely brought out for the Eastern article. That art: was bad enough; but North did me good, like a canter over a Scotch mo...Harriet Martineau various authorsEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 28 October 1864: "What are you reading? I have just read Vaughan's Eng. Revolutions in Religion. Interesting subject but middling ...Henry James VaughanEnglish Revolutions in ReligionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay Velleius PaterculusunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: occasional marginal marks, numbers and comments throughout text, with further brief notes referring to text on 5 binding pages. Combination of ink and faded...H. Wansey Venerable BedeEcclesiastical history of the English Nation, from...Print: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 1 March 1829: 'I labourd heard [i.e. 'hard'?] the whole day and between hands refreshd myself with Vidocque's Memoirs.'Walter Scott VidocqueMemoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 2nd March, Club ? Mr Graham White?s lecture postponed. Members went into the Local History Society?s meeting, except the Committee which met to discuss entert...Gerald Moore VillehardouinMemoirs of the CrusadesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Are Vinagradoff on "The Growth of the Manor" and J. H. Round on "Scutage" still the authorities for this remote and difficult period, I wonder, or has some incisive and ...Vera Brittain VinagradoffThe Growth of the ManorPrint: Book, Unknown


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