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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'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell David Herbert LawrenceSea and SardiniaPrint: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell George Norman DouglasSouth WindPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'He continued in the Colledge for the space of nine years, and in all that time (except he went forth a Town to his friends) he was never absent from morning Prayers in t...William Gouge ScripturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sources'.Arnold Bennett unknownVictoria History of the PotteriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'He did not mention that as a prisoner he himself had written an autobiography, of which H. N. Brailsford was to comment in the "New Statesman" the following May: "This b...Henry Noel Brailsford Jawaharlal NehruTowards FreedomPrint: Book
1700-1799'He disapproved much of mingling real facts with fiction. On this account he censured a book entitled "Love and Madness"'. Samuel Johnson Love and MadnessPrint: Book
1850-1899'He discussed books with me and gave me my first volume of poetry, Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold, marking his favourites.'Oscar Wilde Matthew ArnoldSelected Poems of Matthew ArnoldPrint: Book
1800-1849'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and the Cyclops - but he likes romances any marvellous ta...Percy Shelley Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and the Cyclops - but he likes romances any marvellous ta...Percy Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley[translation of Homer's Hymn to Mercury and the Cy...Print: Book
1900-1945'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude and often bought "La vie parisienne" and, for light re...Joseph Conrad La Vie ParisiennePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude and often bought "La vie parisienne" and, for light re...Joseph Conrad PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'he entered a competition held by Tit-Bits. The prize money was twenty guineas, and it was offered for a "humorous condensation" of a sensational serial which the paper h...Arnold Bennett Grant AllenWhat's bred in the bonePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Rothenstein's 'Men and Memories in typescript, with many...Arnold Bennett William RothensteinMen and MemoriesManuscript: typescript
1850-1899'He first read Twain in London in the late eighties. "Innocents Abroad"(1869) was all the rage. But his description of life in America-some of his short stories as well...Joseph Conrad Mark TwainLife on the MississippiPrint: Book
1600-1699'He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and Deptford to look after the despatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr Spencer's book of Prodigys, which is most ingeniously w...Samuel Pepys John SpencerA discourse containing prodigies; wherein the vani...Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, I home; and there my wife made an end to me of Sir R. Cottons discourse of Warr, which is endeed a very fine book. So to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys Sir Robert CottonAn answer to such motives as were offer'd by certa...Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth reading, as informing a man plainly in the posture ...Elizabeth Pepys Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'He had a pretty full translation of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters. which we read together ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich SchillerOn the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of L...Print: Unknown


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