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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
 
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton SuetoniusDe Vita Caesarum [the Twelve Caesars]Print: Book
1800-1849' ... C[oleridge] was reading ... [Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria] on arrival at Allan Bank in Sept. 1808 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PetrarchDe Vita SolitariaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
    L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved

2. A brief ...		Elizabeth T. Alexander Arnold ZweigDe Vriendt Goes HomePrint: Book
1900-1945'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written excitedly, and while Div[ina]. Com[media] was forming...Edward Morgan Forster Dante AlighieriDe Vulgari EloquentiaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwo...Joseph Stamper Edward L. WheelerDeadwood DickPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute m...Joseph Stamper Edward L. WheelerDeadwood DickPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was...Thomas Carter Dr PorteusDeathPrint: Book
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Bishop Beilby PorteusDeathPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Willa CatherDeath Comes for the ArchbishopPrint: Book
1900-1945'Well, it's written snappy, you see. . . . Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, Thackeray and Scott, but they're snappy-they're quick...J G BrandonDeath in Downing StreetPrint: Book
1900-1945'dear hemingway, (i have cut off the top of thumb with a sickle and so cannot put down the capital stop) thank you very much for the book on bull rings i have bee...Ford Madox Ford Ernest HemingwayDeath in the AfternoonPrint: Book
1850-1899Dec 9 'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging Rancher" Made very little headway.' Newton Barton [unknown]Death Notch the Avenging RancherPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I have seen in the papers, the death of a beloved friend of yours, & of one for whom I myself had a true ...Elizabeth Barrett death notice for Harriet Baker (d.17 August)Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 4 May 1842: 'I have had a great shock lately, in the death of poor Lady Sidmouth. I received from her two letters at onc...Mary Russell Mitford death notice of Lady SidmouthPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name]Death of a HeroPrint: Book
1900-1945'I lay in my sleeping bag reading Mr.Richard Aldington's cynical book "Death of a Hero". it is an admirable work but I would have preferred Mr. P.G.Wodehouse on this occa...Frank Smythe Richard AldingtonDeath of a HeroPrint: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] read (in [John] Langhorne's translation) Bion's death of Adonis by 1786 ... 'William Wordsworth BionDeath of AdonisUnknown
1900-1945'By the way, Harold and I both like Clifford Kitchin's murder book, and I shall recommend it on Thursday, so tell Leonard to notice if it affects sales.'Vita Sackville-West Clifford KitchinDeath of my AuntPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Alfred Rawlings Death of Robin HoodPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is not yet set - It is only on the mountains" But he dra...John Ruskin PlatoDeath of SocratesPrint: Book


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