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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 started reading my inscribed copy [of "Mr Perrin and Mr Traill"] straight away. How well (and freshly) all this is done!' [Hence follow four more lines of appreciative...Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleMr Perrin and Mr Traill: A Tragi-Comedy.Print: Book
1900-1945'I started to read "Bleak House" by Dickens when I was at the base and I should like to get on with it. You might get a small 1/- edition and send it on it will you as I ...Bernard Wilfrid Long Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'I started to read a book called "Ishtar". It's not very good but I was very vague as to who Ishtar was - apparently the Babylonian goddess of love, war and fertility. Pe...E S StevensIshtarPrint: Book
1600-1699'I stayd till noone readinge in the Booke of Martirs'.Roger Lowe John FoxeBook of Martyrs Print: Book
1850-1899'I stayed at home & after [reading] the paper smoked till I was sleepy then I went off to bed & was sleeping soundly when Polly returned home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I stayed at home & read'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the narrative & after I had finished it Flory went [smiling...John Buckley Castieau Richard Harris BarhamIngoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the narrative & after I had finished it Flory went [smiling...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][fairy tales]Print: Book
1850-1899'I stayed at home in the evening & amused myself by reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I stayed at Home the whole day & read "John Bull & his island"'John Buckley Castieau Max O'RellJohn Bull and his islandPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I stayed behind in the waiting-room, reading a favourable review in "Punch" of Phyllis Bentley's newly published novel , "Inheritance", which Winifred had voted "magnifi...Vera Brittain PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I stayed in bed till 4 oclock this afternoon the sermon was read after dinner. It was fine but a little too strong'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I stayed up late reading "The Gay Galliard" by Margaret Irwin, which is a lovely book.'Hilary Spalding Margaret IrwinGay Galliard, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I stayed up very late to-night reading Thackeray's scraps contributed in the olden days to Punch & Frazer's Magazine. Some of them interested me very much though I was r...John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I stayed with Sir Alfred Lyall for a couple of days on my way north [to Middleborough]. He gave me the proofs of his life of Lord Dufferin to read which was rather inter...Gertrude Bell Alfred C. LyallThe life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. Manuscript: Sheet, proofs
1900-1945'I still like ?Dodsworth?, and now am a little sorry for Mrs. She certainly does seem to lose herself and he is something of a dunderhead though he is so honest and wel...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'I still remember my feelings when I finished "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". I was afraid, but this fear made me discover something I've never forgotten since: fear, yo...Alfred Hitchcock Edgar Allan PoeThe Murders in the Rue MorguePrint: Book
1850-1899'I strongly recommend ''The Life of Henrietta Kerr'' — a nun ... The book is very entertaining as well as interesting.'Emma Darwin Henrietta Mary Emma Kerr. ed. John Morris, S.J.The Life of Mother Henrietta Kerr, Religious of th...Print: Book
1800-1849'I strongly recommend to you Captain Golownin's narrative of his imprisonment in Japan; it is one of the most entertaining books I have read for a long time.'Sydney Smith [Captain] GollowninRecollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the ...Print: Book


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