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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
 
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...Hilary Spalding A.J. Cronin[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "The Escaping Club" by A.J. Evans; it is very interesting, but what a contrast to our lot and treatment. He got so many food parcels from home, plus wha...Thomas Kitching A.J. EvansThe escaping clubPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth...Percy Wall A.K. von HuhnThe Struggle of the Bulgarians for National Indepe...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and sympathise in your afternoon musings - the subdued t...Margaret Oliphant A.K.H. BoydTaking in SailPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ever? Perhaps not. He was one of the ?New Age? crow...Winifred Agnes Moore A.L. BacharachThe Musical CompanionPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P...Harry McShane A.P. HazellA Summary of Marx's 'Capital'Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'A very exciting book called "The Secret Battle" by APH. It is about the last war, and is rather pathetic in parts. I really oughtn't to be reading fiction these days b...Hilary Spalding A.P. HerbertSecret Battle, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding A.P. HerbertShe ShantiesPrint: Book
1850-1899I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a little work in the mornings. Margaret Oliphant A.P. StanleyA Selection from the writings of Dean StanleyPrint: Book
1700-1799Went again to the shrubbery-brought our books namely Gil Blas and Madame de Sevigne with us.Lady Eleanor Butler A.R. LesageGil BlasPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I don't think, talking of Americans, that I've told you about an old couple called Williams Jackson who have "debouchés" here as the trimmings of an American commission ...Gertrude Bell A.V. Williams JacksonZoroaster: the prophet of ancient IranPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possibility that you may be defendants in an imperial pla...Margaret Oliphant A.W. KinglakeInvasion of the CrimeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I keep the two books a little longer. "Shakespeare" is good.'Joseph Conrad A.[Andrew] C.[Cecil] BradleyShakespearean Tragedy:Lectures on Hamlet, Othello,...Print: Book
1800-1849During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g...John Cole Aaron HillZaraPrint: Book
1700-1799'what a charming instance have you given me, good sir, of the Restoration of [your health], if I may be permitted to infer it from the noble strength and Vigor of your ve...Samuel Richardson Aaron HillFanciadManuscript: Unknown, Richardson is about to print the manuscript
1700-1799'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page we shall see another Sonnet, written by the Abbate B...Hester Lynch Thrale Abbate Buondelmonte[a sonnet]Unknown
1800-1849'In the evening Shelley reads Abbe Barruel to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Abbe BarruelHistory of the IlluminatiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads the History of the Illuminati out of Baruel to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Abbe BarruelMemoirs illustrating the History of JacobinismPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf Abbe DunnetunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, w...Thomas Carlyle Abbe RaynalPhilosophical and Political History of the Settlem...Print: Book


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