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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'For lighter reading we had the Shah's Diary, a work whose child-like simplicity admitted of but one interpretation. I never got through very much of it, but I did ...Gertrude Bell Naser al-Din Shah QajarDiariesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James thanks Arthur Christopher Benson for letting him borrow and read his 'Diary', in letter of 1 October 1897: 'I have read, of course, every word -- and I think ...Henry James Arthur Christopher BensonDiaryUnknown
1900-1945Henry James to Margot Asquith, 9 April 1915, thanking her for sending him her diary to read ('a few days ago'): 'I have absorbed every word of every page with the livelie...Henry James Margot AsquithDiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Commenced as soon as I had been through the Gaol to read some of my Diary for 1871'John Buckley Castieau John Buckley CastieaudiaryManuscript: Codex
1800-1849'I am often ashamed when I read over what I have written, to see how I allow my mind to wander, and my pen to note down so many of its vagaries. Yet I never have resoluti...Charlotte Bury Charlotte BuryDiaryManuscript: MS journal
1900-1945Sunday 20 April 1919: 'In the idleness which succeeds [writing] any long article [...] I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind...Virginia Woolf Virginia WoolfDiaryManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Mary Robson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Rosamund Wallis Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Reginald Robson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Ernest E. Unwin Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my las...John Buckley Castieau John Buckley CastieaudiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morris; I did not know (what A. had put into his Idyll [...Alfred Tennyson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: 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
1850-1899'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's wo...John Ruskin John James RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.'John Ruskin John James RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26'John Ruskin John James RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer to, which I had chanced to put forward on my first s...John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Read diary of spring 1873 - what a change!'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Read entry in this journal for 8th and 9th September!'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Read again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex


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