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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 read an article in the "Daily Herald" on the Coronation Day survey. There was an invitation to write to Blackheath if any wished to assist. It appealed to me immensely... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I read at Home to the little girls & boys till eight o'clock, then went to the Club'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I read at night in the G[reek or Great]Testament but for a very short while'.John Jones [n/a][Greek or Great?] TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort. The book is not ill-written: but it grieved me to see the august historian of astronomy, the...Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain BaillyMemoires D'un Temoin De La RevolutionPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read Barbusse in trenches and he made me see things I had never seen before though they were before my eyes every day; yet his description bore the same relation to an...Stephen Lucius Gwynn Henri BarbusseLe FeuPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read both of your novels with pleasure and admiration for the handling—particularly the one about the castle which I have lent to an appreciative American so that I ...Ford Madox Ford Anthony BertramThey Came to the CastlePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked them'.Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked them'.Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I read Bradley on "Hamlet" all day, and am in a greater muddle over it than I am over "Antony and Cleo", if that is possible!'Hilary Spalding A.C. BradleyShakespearean TragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Carnot's memorial - he is a common place man'Mary Godwin Lazare N.M. CarnotMemoir adresse au Roi en juillet 1814Print: Book
1900-1945'I read Celery through from cover to cover last night in bed. It really is good.'Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-WestHeritagePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century'George Eliot [pseud] George Lillie CraikHistory of English Literature and the English Lang...Print: Book
1600-1699'I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and expression; and although by such industrious wayes ...Isaac Archer John WilkinsA Discourse Concerning the Gift of PrayerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1900-1945'I read Flecker most of evening and am more and more convinced that his poetry is wonderful'.Hilary Spalding James Elroy Flecker[poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read for a time to the little boys. They were very attentive & it was quite a pleasure to watch their earnest faces'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read for half an hour at the Mechanics. This was the first part of the evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but though I was told I would weep many tears in reading it I...Eugenia Wynne Bernardin de St PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read Frank Norris’s “The Octopus” almost till midnight.' Edmund Blunden Frank NorrisThe Octopus: A Story of CaliforniaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read Freud's "Introductory Lectures".'Sigmund FreudIntroductory LecturesPrint: Book


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