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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 have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesRupert Brooke'Peace'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesRupert Brooke'The Dead'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesRupert Brooke'The Soldier'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been unexpectedly interested - unexpectedly as to degree - in my old friend Babbage's "Passages in the Life &c". I dare say you read it, and half forgot it, month...Harriet Martineau Charles BabbagePassages from the Life of a PhilosopherPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am particularly glad to find you so much alive upon any top...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I have been with a nice little party of College friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing but read Shakespear. Mrs Siddons was Magnificent-'Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been with a nice little party of college friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing but read Shakespear.' [Siddings was performing in Cov...Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been working all the morning at my second ?John Knox? proof, and got it pretty right, I fancy.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonJohn Knox and the Controversy about Female RulePrint: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.
1900-1945'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs really do sound like them now, although I still get stif...Peter Pears W A AikenThe Voice: An Introduction to Practical PhonologyPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I have been, and am now, in the midst of reading Miss Edgeworth's 4th, 5th, and 6th vols of "Tales of Fashionable Life". I don't enter into disquisitions about whether t...Sir William Elford Maria EdgeworthTales of Fashionable LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have before me as I write a photo by Sir Aurel Stein showing the body of a man of Turfan buried fifteen centuries ago, and it is hard to belive that he is even dead. ...Martin Louis Alan Gompertz ('Ganpat') Sir Aurel SteinunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I have beguiled myself into forgetfulness of my own story by reading "Tony Butler" - it is so clear! - and Lowell's "Fireside Travels".'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles LeverTony ButlerPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have begun Alison's "Europe" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French revolution. Good deal of inaccurate English, but clever...John Ruskin Sir Archibald AlisonHistory of EuropePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'.George Eliot Edward Bulwer LyttonRienziPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas CarlyleFrederick the GreatPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying over it I am fair moidert'.Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for the book that became 'A little Less ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'.George Eliot (pseud) John William DraperHuman PhysiologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have begun reading Genesis in Hebrew with Dr R[osen, the German Consul]! It's frightfully thrilling — but as yet I have only read one verse so I don't feel to ha...Gertrude Bell Genesis Print: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'.George Eliot [pseud] Johannes ScherrGeschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'Print: BookManuscript: Unknown


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