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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'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Logan Pearsall SmithUnforgotten YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Somerset MaughamThe Summing-UpPrint: Book
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Siegfried SassoonThe Old CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Charles C. F. Greville?The Greville MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully...Richard Lovell Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully...Richard Lovell Edgeworth [unknown][Reports on Mendicity]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully...Richard Lovell Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronSketch from Private Life, APrint: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society
1850-1899'His [Colley Cibber's] friends gave out that he [italics] intended [end italics] his birth-day "Odes" should be bad: but that was not the case, Sir; for he kept them many...Samuel Johnson Colley Cibber[Odes]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualities that make his novels admirable.]'Joseph Conrad Henry JamesA Small Boy and OthersPrint: Book
1900-1945'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualities that make his novels admirable.]'Joseph Conrad Henry JamesNotes of a Son and BrotherPrint: Book
1900-1945'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her own reading scarcely extended beyond light novels and ...Susan Owen [light novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her own reading scarcely extended beyond light novels and ...Susan Owen John Oxenham [pseud.][light novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'History and travels are our chief favourites; but with them we intermix a variety of miscellaneous literature, with now and then a favourite novel, to relish our graver ...Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesLife and Works of Goethe, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] Frederick Pollock[biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford]Print: Book
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] Edward Caird[probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte...Print: Book
1900-1945'Hobbies. Mentioned 10 times. Twice as normal, three times increased (walking, stamp collecting, reading). One "war outlook; making of aeroplanes, etc", one "Juniors play...A.E. HousmanunknownUnknown
1800-1849'Hogg reads Gibbon to me - go to Bullocks Museum - see the birds - return at 4 - work and H reads Gibbon aloud (finish 4 volume)'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud'Thomas Jefferson Hogg John Black (trans.)Memoirs of Goldoni (the celebrated Italian Dramati...Print: Book
1800-1849'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.Mary Godwin Isaac D'IsraeliDespotism; or, the Fall of the JesuitsPrint: Book


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