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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetry 1916-1917". This new volume of the anthology, publ...Wilfred Owen Harold MonroStrange MeetingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetry 1916-1917". This new volume of the anthology, publ...Wilfred Owen Georgian Poetry 1916-1917Print: Book
1900-1945'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetry 1916-1917". This new volume of the anthology, publ...Wilfred Owen Rupert Brooke Print: Book
1800-1849'He [Percy Bysshe Shelley] reads the curse of Kehama to us in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'He [Shelley] reads part of "Caleb Williams" to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinThings as they are: or, the adventures of Caleb Wi...Print: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] had been reading Motley's Dutch Republic.'Alfred Tennyson MotleyDutch RepublicPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. He had told Disraeli that the "silly sooth" of love w...Alfred Tennyson Benjamin DisraeliHenrietta TemplePrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. He had told Disraeli that the "silly sooth" of love w...Alfred Tennyson Benjamin DisraeliLothairPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson William Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson William Makepeace ThackerayPendennisPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson William Makepeace ThackerayThe NewcomesPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson Walter Scottnovels including Old MortalityPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson Jane Austennovels Print: Book
1800-1849'He [the new apprentice] made selections from the Old and New Testament history, which he read aloud, and upon which he dilated with a force and eloquence that would have...Martin n/aOld and New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Waugh] told me he expected the book to keep on selling. You might give him to understand that the eyes of Europe are upon him at this crisis, and point out to him th...Arnold Bennett  Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'He [William Lamb] grew so out of spirits that he quite cried--as women do & has just recovered his spirites--however they are returned as usual for he is reading a Greek...William Lamb unknown[a Greek play]Unknown
1850-1899'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] George SandLucrezia FlorianiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Headache. Read Lucrezia Floriani. We are reading White's History of Selborne in the evening'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesGilbert WhiteThe Natural History of SelbornePrint: Book
1900-1945'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise ...Henry Van DykeThe Other Wise ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise ...Frank MorrisonWho Moved the StonePrint: Book


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