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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'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The...members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]BuildingManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'A poor day-labourer in the town ... had an old torn book which he lent my father, which was called "Bunny's Resolution"... And in the reading of this book (when I was ab...Richard Baxter Robert ParsonsBunny's ResolutionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mon. No letter. No parcel. Read Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett.'William Thomas Arnold BennettBuried AlivePrint: Book
1900-1945‘I was very glad to get your parcel in the week, the cake was fine, & so were the fags. Im sure it was very good of you to send them. I believe it was Monday that I...George Adcock Weston Burton ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'As to "Bushwhacking" you know I prize it above anything that may be written in acknowledgement of a presentation volume.[...]The book I consider as the best expression o...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordBushwhacking and Other SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Heaven knows there is enough infantile cruelty in his [Basil Nicholson's] book'.Antonia White Basil NicholsonBusiness is BusinessPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper. And after reading part of "Bussy D'Ambois", a good play I bought today - to bed.'Samuel Pepys George ChapmanBussy D'AmboisPrint: Book
1900-1945'But as to "Buta" it is altogether and fundamentally good, good in matter--that's of course--but good wonderfully good in form and especially in expression.' Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamButaPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before... [n/a]ButterflyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.'Anne Lister Henry MooreBuxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions iPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...L. T. MeadeBy Mutual ConsentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 27th December. ?By Order of the Company? (Johnston)'. Gerald Moore Mary JohnstonBy Order of the CompanyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am sorry to miss making the acquaintance of Mr Becke. Strangely enough I have been, only the other day, reading again his "Reef and Palm". Apart from the great interes...Joseph Conrad George Lewis (Louis) BeckeBy Reef and PalmPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene 22. II 1937
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (by F.E.P. in regretted absence of the Secretary) & approv...		Reginald H. Robson Robert BrowningBy the FiresideUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Francis E. Pollard Robert BrowningBy the FiresideUnknown
1900-1945'Each night when I lie down I read a book until lights go out. Am reading the end of one called "By the Gods Beloved" by Baroness Orczy. Last night I slept poorly a...Thomas Wainwright Emmuska, Baroness OrczyBy the Gods BelovedPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] August [1914:] By waters of Germany.
Queenie's whim.
Timothy's quest.
Basil Lyndhurst.
Highway of Fate.
Lamp Lighter
Boo...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Norma Octavia LorimerBy the Waters of GermanyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 5 October 1913: 'We are here [Harrogate] till the 10th [...] It has been a dull month, but not boring. [...] I ordered Chanson de Billit...E. M. Forster Pierre LouysByblis changee en fontainePrint: Book
1900-1945'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit 'runs an epigram of Maurois which bowled me at the first reading; then, as so oft...Edward Morgan Forster Andre MauroisByronPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Frank Knight André MauroisByronPrint: Book


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