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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'Forbes has three postcards; one marked "Try Singapore, then Batavia". This shows there must be internees in Batavia and gives me some hope that Nora may be there, althou...Thomas Kitching [unknown]postcardManuscript: postcard
1900-1945'I am reading volume four of "Wonderful Britain". It is attractively illustrated, particularly to an interned exile. What attracts me specifically, apart from the picture...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Wonderful BritainPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "Walking in the Grampians". If Nora's alive, I swear we will do some of them WHEN this bloody war is over.'Thomas Kitching [unknown]Walking in the GrampiansPrint: Book
1900-1945'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finished reading Book I of "Golden Treasury". Sisters and ...William Soutar [unknown]Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945'To bunk about 8.0. Reading.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read a couple of ballads to Eve.'William Soutar [unknown][ballads]Unknown
1900-1945'Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all "paternal parasites" as regards money - if I can do my share in the Scottish Renaissance perhaps I'll justify my p...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: especially is this necessary for any Scot - since a l...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there is the imprint of a fine artist upon this ballad, as...William Soutar [unknown]EdwardPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'John Ruskin [unknown][chemistry]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1800-1849'read some Greek'John Ruskin [unknown][Greek]Print: Book
1800-1849'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'John Ruskin [unknown]Art UnionPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'John Ruskin [unknown]WitnessPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember out of Italy, among several other papers, the 81st, of...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wanting that to what is present."' John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies, to be expressed by imitation of this order in our l...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical


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