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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 just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White [unknown][a life of George Eliot]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just got Festus - order it and read. You will most likely find it a great bore, but there are really very grand [both words underlined] things in festus... I have...Alfred Tennyson Philip James BaileyFestusPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just got my French article in print: it reads quite nicely'.Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford[unknown article in French]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have just made my will and am reading Aimard's novels.'Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave Aimardunidentified novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pleasure that the reading of your charming sketch has ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamFamily PortraitsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show that by this time there was a tremendous demand on ...Hannah Mitchell Helena SwanwickI have been YoungPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read "The Abbot"; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly worth reading. He has exhausted the subject of Scot...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe AbbotPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underlined] was [end underlining].'Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Edith Wharton[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just read DH Lawrence's "Kangaroo". How I hated (in italics) it! Altho I think the Chapter about the War is well written, but it is so full of Spite, bitterness &...Ottoline Morrell David Herbert LawrenceKangarooPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read Dugald Stewart's "Preliminary Dissertations". In the first place, it is totally clear of all his defects. No insane dread of misrepresentation; no discu...Sydney Smith Dugald Stewart[Dissertation printed in the Encyclopaedia Britann...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore GabouisPerfide Albion ? Entente CordialPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Francois MauriacLes Anges NoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Alexander WerthBefore MunichPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Deladier[collection of speeches]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Paul MaraudRond Point des Champs Elys?esPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Philip CarrThe French at HomePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read in The Bookman your preface to the American edition of ?An Old Wives? Tale.' J.B. Pinker Arnold Bennettpreface to The Old Wives' TalePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have just read King Lear. I think you are more like Goneril than Regan and more like Regan than Cordelia. But you have many qualities that none of these three si...Maurice Baring William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, for the second time, and I feel impelled to tell you ...Edith Sitwell Walter GreenwoodHis Worship the MayorPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, for the second time, and I feel impelled to tell you ...Edith Sitwell Walter GreenwoodLove on the DolePrint: Book


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