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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
 
1850-1899'I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such centuries.'Emma Darwin The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading the Renan book and am fascinated with it. It is really a beautiful book. I daresay I shall finish it before I get to London and will post it back to you. Yo...Gertrude Bell Ernest RenanunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas a KempisImitation of Christ, The (?)Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading up the Camisards and shall go a walk in the scene of their wars, the Hautes Cévennes.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Books on Camisards]Unknown
1900-1945'I am reading volume four of "Wonderful Britain". It is attractively illustrated, particularly to an interned exile. What attracts me specifically, apart from the picture...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Wonderful BritainPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading with intense interest the government blue book of documents prior to the outbreak of war on September 3rd, 1939 - four years ago. And the most pessimistic p...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Government Blue BooksPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich August WolfProlegomena ad HomerumPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Wordsworth with one of the younger classes but it is difficult to explain to people of purely Indian associations Wordsworth's love for nature.'Sir Walter Raleigh William Wordsworth[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.'Virginia Woolf Alice Stopford GreenTown Life in the Fifteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "History of Music."'Virginia Woolf unknown[History of Music]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.'Virginia Woolf J.W. MackailLife of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "Not Wisely but too Well" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.'Virginia Woolf Rhoda BroughtonNot Wisely but Too WellPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.'Virginia Woolf The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for M...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'Virginia Woolf Austen Henry LayardNinevehPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means exhausted them yet. ?Mahatma Gandhi? I am reading at...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownMahatma GandhiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means exhausted them yet. ?Mahatma Gandhi? I am reading at...Winifred Agnes Moore Katherine MayoMother IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of work - written much of it in a state of pain that m...Leigh Hunt Mary ShelleyRambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 18...Print: Book
1900-1945'I am really grieved to see that the WEEK END REVIEW is stopping. It was a really admirable journal and gave me pleasure with each number—which is more than I can say f...Ford Madox Ford Week-end ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?. I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and keeps me more than abreast of current thought ? for E...Winifred Agnes Moore [French newspapers]Print: Newspaper


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