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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'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ...R.L. Wild David Herbert Lawrence Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ...R.L. Wild Elinor Glyn Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ...R.L. Wild Charles LambEssays of EliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gruppe read us a translation of one of the Homeric Hymns - Aphrodite - which is really beautiful. It is a sort of Gegenstuck to "Der Gott und die Bayadere". He has struc...[Professor] Gruppe Homer[hymn to Aphrodite]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...] '[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly acted like Mortals until about thirty Years old, aft...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Gwen's hand is improving. I applied some carbonate of soda to [indecipherable] having read about in a medical book.'Anne Jenkins unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...Helen Maria Lucy Swanwick science booksPrint: Book
1850-1899'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick medical journalsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945'H. Williamson's "Norfolk Farm", for the detail making me feel I had lived those hard days myself.'H WilliamsonNorfolk FarmPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.M Wallis ably reviewed Dill's Social Life in the Roman Empire & much discussion followed'.Henry Marriage Wallis Samuel DillRoman Society from Nero to Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol...H.M. Tomlinson BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol...H.M. Tomlinson William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol...H.M. Tomlinson Walter Scott Print: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Bari...Henry Marriage Wallis Sabine Baring-GouldJohn HerringPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Bari...Mary Pollard Sabine Baring-GouldBroom Squire, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Bari...Francis Pollard Sabine Baring-GouldStrange Survivals and SuperstitionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Bari...Howard R. Smith Sabine Baring-GouldVicar of Morwenstow, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Bari...Henry Marriage Wallis Sabine Baring-Gould Print: Book


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