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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'Got up late for breakfast but felt so awful that Mary took my temperature which was over 100 and sent me straight back to bed, where I remained, dozing and reading — Tre...James Lees-Milne George Macaulay TrevelyanEnglish Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries ...Print: Book
1600-1699'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe'Thomas Hoby William Perkins[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Gradually, very gradually, Australians will realize what they owe to England. How all my English blood courses through my veins when I read of England's responses to the...Kenneth Julian Faithfull Bickersteth unknown unknownunknownPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1850-1899'Grant Allen’s”[The] Woman Who Did”, c’est un livre mort. Gr.[ant]Allen is a man of inferior intelligence and his work is not art in any sense. “[The] Woman Who Did” ha...Joseph Conrad Grant AllenThe Woman Who DidPrint: Book
1900-1945'Gratifying letter from John Fossett: "Very many thanks for two instalments of diary. Joan and I derived hours of pleasure from reading it aloud to each other. How we l...John Fossett Vere HodgsonMS diaryManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Graves of a Household' 'They grew in beauty side by side, ...' 'Mrs Hemans'Bowly groupFelicia Dorothea HemansThe Graves of a HouseholdUnknown
1800-1849'Graves of a Household' [transcript of text]Emma Bowly F. D. HemansThe Graves of a HouseholdUnknown
1800-1849'Great and manifold are the books I have read since I saw you. You recommended "Thaddeus of Warsaw" long ago you may remember - and the work in my judgement fully deserve...Thomas Carlyle Jane PorterThaddeus of WarsawPrint: Book
1850-1899'Great article abusive of Wackerow appeared in Ovens & Murray this morning'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anything else of D[ickens]. known to me. Very fine writi...Edward Morgan Forster Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1800-1849'Greek - not well - Indicators'Mary Shelley [n/a]IndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Greek - Sintram - S. not well'Mary Shelley Friedrich Heinrich KarlSintram und seine GefahrtenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Greek - Tasso'Mary Shelley Torquato Tasso[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Greek - Voltaire's Tales'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Greek with Eva Rev 15 to end.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 15Print: BookUnknown
1700-1799'Greville draws Prose Characters incomparably well; that Man's book of Maxims &c. has not had credit enough in the World - Adrastus, Sicinius & Strabo are admirable in th...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Fulke GrevilleMaxims, Characters, and ReflectionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'George Eliot [pseud] George Grote[probably] History of GreecePrint: Book



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