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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'Have had good luck with a Library book. Managed to get Where Love and Friendship Meet by Mrs Belloc Lowndes. It is the latest story of the Belloc family, and present...Vere Hodgson Marie Belloc LowndesWhere Love and Friendship DweltPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have just finished some recollections of Kipling called Something of Myself. I am horrified at his sufferings as a child. When not with the Burne-Jones family he was...Vere Hodgson Rudyard KiplingSomething of Myself for My Friends Known and Unkno...Print: Book
1900-1945'Have just read The Kaiser and his English Relations by Benson. Most interesting.'Vere Hodgson Edward Frederic BensonThe Kaiser and English RelationsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Have lately been reading some very practical and spiritual treatises such as Shepherd on the Ten Virgins and my shortcomings make me almost weary of myself'Arabella Davies unknown ShepherdunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Have not read the P.I.L., neither has anyone in the house or anyone else I know. Will be read only if war breaks out. They are being carefully kept.' [n/a][information leaflets]Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'have now taken up Quatrefages again.'George Eliot (pseud) Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau[zoology]Print: Book
1900-1945'Have read Guilty Women by Richard Baxter. He calls Edda Mussolini the most dangerous woman in Europe.'Vere Hodgson Richard BaxterGuilty WomenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have read, since I have been here, about 30 pages in the Bipont edition of "Thucydides", the part, the latter part of the second book, containing the funeral oration by ...William Windham Thucydides[Two orations]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Have received the Mag. and like it exceedingly. The best for a good while'James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Have signed and sent off agreement with Paul.'Robert Louis Stevenson  Manuscript: Letter, UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'Have very little to write about to-day, everything was dull & quiet & peacable. The Weekly Papers helped to pass away the time. I was very much amused by a skit in The A...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so well understand what it all seems to be about, I sho...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown]Monthly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of ...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so well understand what it all seems to be about, I sho...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown]Quarterly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse o...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you Cap. Beecheys voyage to the Pacific? if you have not, I will buy it, as it contains some most excellent Meteorological Journals?'Charles Darwin Frederick W BeecheyNarrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's...Print: Book
1850-1899'Have you ever read Alroy by Disraeli?' [includes quotations from Alroy].Robert Louis Stevenson Benjamin DisraeilAlroy: a RomancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you ever read Olympe de Cleves? If not, remember, it must be read.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexandre DumasOlympe de ClevesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?'George Crabbe Christopher BensonHulsean Lectures for 1822: On Scripture Difficulti...Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the subject is in a state of astonishment, and those, who ...Anne Romilly Jane Haldimand MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the subject is in a state of astonishment, and those, who ...James Mansfield Jane Haldimand MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and grief to me'.Sydney Smith [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper


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