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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'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be very precious I understand as a first edition. Will ...Winifred Agnes Moore Carl Van VechtenNigger HeavenPrint: Book
1850-1899'Harold'Sarah Good Edward George Bulwer-LyttonHaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Harp of the North! that mouldering long hath hung, ..'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lady of the LakeUnknown
1850-1899'Harry & I read for a long time together. Harry is beginning to understand what he reads & takes a fair part in Dialogue Reading.'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [n/a][dialogue]Print: Book
1850-1899'Harry & I then read a dialogue & this brought the time right for the theatre, where Telo took Mrs Castieau, the girls & Harry'Harry Castieau [unknown][drama?]Print: Book
1900-1945'Harry Dorrell read his brother's copy of George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife", but "I could not understand wny the lady who was undressed said to the man 'Bite me' and also ...Harry Dorrell George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899'Harry importuned me to play Bezique, so we had a game & after it was over I took my book & Harry went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for t...Polly Castieau [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for t...Harry Castieau Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for t...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Has Eliot, for example, not returned from the "Waste Land" back to a more dogmatic climate - his latest book, "After Strange Gods", is almost priggish in tone; and sligh...William Soutar T.S. EliotAfter Strange GodsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Has it ever occurred to you what a fine story, really, "The Procurator of Judaea" might have been if Anatole France had possessed in any degree the gift of construction?...Arnold Bennett Anatole FranceThe Procurator of JudaeaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; I thnk this latter very entertaining, but it was har...Sydney Smith [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Has thou read John Foster's Life and Correspondence? It is deeply interesting; generally speaking, I am not addicted to the reading of correspondence, but his is no pe...Eliza Ellis Jonathan Edwards RylandThe Life and Correspondence of John FosterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Has your newspaper given a sad story of a Mrs Middleton, wife of a Farmer in Yorkshire, her sister & servant being almost frozen to death in the late weather - her littl...Jane Austen newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Hasan, smoking wisps of paper filled with green tobacco, walked on reciting poems composed by his father about Harold and the R.A.F. and chucked his long brown fin...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown Arabic poems in praise of the RAF and Har...Unknown
1900-1945'Have become exceedingly interested in ants and bees, after today's Zoo lesson, and am reading up about them. They are really amazing things.'Hilary Spalding unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have been reading a book in the modern manner about Moses. Cannot help but see a parallel between Churchill and Moses — and between us and the Children of Israel. In ...Vere Hodgson Elspeth Boog-WatsonThe Story of MosesPrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[philology books]Print: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] HomerIliadPrint: Book


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