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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'I finish reading "The Escaping Club" by A.J. Evans; it is very interesting, but what a contrast to our lot and treatment. He got so many food parcels from home, plus wha...Thomas Kitching A.J. EvansThe escaping clubPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "The Vicar of Wakefield". The world has changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 150'Thomas Kitching Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "Walking in the Grampians". If Nora's alive, I swear we will do some of them WHEN this bloody war is over.'Thomas Kitching [unknown]Walking in the GrampiansPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading the 1942 diary of R.J.H.S. (another internee). It is an intensely personal document totally unlike mine, though we live under precisely similar conditio...Thomas Kitching R.J.H.S. DiaryManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I finish the "Puppets" book; it induced too great a longing for home and freedom and the end of this nightmare the world is plunged into - to appreciate it as I should h...Thomas Kitching Walter WilkinsonPuppets into ScotlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Places"'.Hilary Spalding Naomi MichisonConquered, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Places"'.Hilary Spalding unknownPeople and PlacesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin and Mrs Brabauld.Joseph Hunter John AikinA Description of the country from thirty to forty ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin and Mrs Brabauld.Joseph Hunter John AikinEvenings at home; or the Juvenile Budget OpenedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I finished chiefly in bed after the House. I like it extremely; perhaps there is not quite so much power as in Ellen Middleton, but it is full of beauty & interest; one ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Georgiana FullertonGrantleyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I finished D. Campbell's "Journey over land to India". It is divided into three parts ... the story of Mr [Alli?] who was shipwrecked and imprisoned with him is very aff...Joseph Hunter Donald CampbellA Journey Over Land to IndiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what it comes to, it is an elaborate apology for the mora...Leslie Stephen John Henry NewmanAn essay in aid of a grammar of assentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I finished Prideaux's "Connection of the Old and New Testament" history.'Joseph Hunter Humphrey PrideauxThe Old and New Testament ConnectedPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'.Hilary Spalding Richard Brinsley SheridanRivals, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'.Hilary Spalding A.C. BradleyShakespearean TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finished reading a "Book of Scottish Verse" yesterday - edited by George Burnett. What a number of minor Scottish poets there are of the latter part of last century an...William Soutar George Burnett [ed]Book of Scottish VersePrint: Book
1800-1849'I finished Rollin before these people came. I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I have bestowed on this ancient history I find my mind ...Jane Baillie Welsh Charles RollinThe History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancien...Print: Book
1850-1899'I finished the book [Le Mariage du fils Grandsire] a while ago; then I went over several passages while waiting the chance to reread it entirely.' [here follows Conrad'...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'Jane Austen Eaton Stannard BarrettThe Heroine; or, Adventures of CherubinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'James Austen Eaton Stannard BarrettThe Heroine; or, Adventures of CherubinaPrint: Book


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