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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 Cecil Freeman GreggBody behind the Bar, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699"[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings...Meric Casaubon bogus work on Etruscan antiquitiesPrint: Book
1600-1699"[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings...Meric Casaubon bogus work on Etruscan antiquitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Do you want Frank Harris? If so, I think I could bring him into the fold. . . . His last book "The Bomb" (which is a masterly thing) is published by Long (!) who gave ...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisBomb, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Bombay Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In a post-war record entitled "Bomber Offensive", Sir Arthur Harris himself described the ordeal of Hamburg, which caused civilian casualties variously estimated at betw...Vera Brittain Arthur HarrisBomber OffensivePrint: Book
1900-1945'He is about to go when he sees a copy of Bombers Moon by Negley Farson (8/6?). He picks it up to look at it. It interests him and he stands reading this completely o...Negley FarsonBombers MoonPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at your Author but it is a noble poem ... I suppose I ma...George Gordon Lord Byron Stratford CanningBonaparteManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes throughout, incl. v.2 giving Nov 12 1904 as the "second time of reading" and v.1 July 24, 1920: "3rd time of reading A most excellent military...George Otto Trevelyan Felix BouvierBonaparte en ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Buonaparte's Memorial to Sir Hudson Lowe, a poor performance and utterly unworthy his fallen greatness'.Benjamin Newton Charles MontholonBonaparte's memorial in a letterPrint: Book
1850-1899'Talking of which, in Heaven's name, get the Bondage of Brandon (3 vols) by Bracebridge Hemming.'Robert Louis Stevenson Bracebridge HemyngBondage of BrandonPrint: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Hester Lynch Thrale Francis BeaumontBonducaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Howard R. Smith Bonnie House of Airlie, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		"Another favourite of his was Hogg, whose ballad of "Bonny Kilmery" he had by heart."Charles Robert Maturin James HoggBonny KilmenyPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a child [...] [Charles Shaw] [...] accepted without much complaint that at the age of seven he should abandon his games and go to work. Then, about a year later, whi... bookPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 December 1843: 'Looking over a book catalogue this morning I saw Agnes Strickland's name attached to a "Demetrius & othe...Elizabeth Barrett Book cataloguePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 15. 5. 36
    H. M. Wallis in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
5. A General Knowledge t...		Members of the XII Book ClubH. R. Smith and Charles StansfieldBOOK CLUB: General Knowledge Paper, 15th May 1936.Manuscript: Typescript sheets
1850-1899'I send you three translations of a bit of Horace, in order to hear what you think of the last measure.'Robert Louis Stevenson HoraceBook II Ode IIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewesbook in MS, perhaps his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, book M.S.
1900-1945'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events o...Ernest E. Unwin William Henry HudsonBook of a Naturalist, ThePrint: Book


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