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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
 
1900-1945Be not vexed that I have only just read 'Akhnaton'. Of late months I have had so much in the way of absolutely imperative perusal that I’ve got frightfully behind. I am...Arnold Bennett Adelaide PhilpottsAkhnatonPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Indeed you are darlings of a special sort. The birthday book of my beloved William [Wordsworth] is charming, and you know what I think of the oatcake and scones you ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Adelaide WordsworthWordsworth Birthday BookPrint: Book
1800-1849'I wanted to have sent you a translation of the epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's...'Sarah Harriet Burney Adelaide Filleul, Countess de FlahautEugenie et MathildePrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am reading such a splendid book in German, by a man called Chamisso "Peter Schlemihl's Wundersame Geschichte" (The Amazing Adventures of Peter Schlemihl). It is ...Clive Staples Lewis Adelbert von ChamissoPeter Schlemihls Wundersame GeschichtePrint: Book
1900-1945'was reading Hitler's speech (oddly enough I read Hitler's speeches but very seldom read Churchill's I feel there is much truth in what he says. This statement, is, I sup...Adolf HitlerSpeechesPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I prefer to go as soon as I can to the fountainhead, and to read, say, "Mein Kampf," to reading about Hitler. Such books I buy and read through without skipping or skimm...Adolf HitlerMein KampfPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I lik...Adolf HitlerMein KampfPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read it three times, and I can't make head or tail of it. Doesn't seem nothing in it somehow.'Adolf Hitler[a speech]Print: Unknown
1900-1945Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it o...Virginia Woolf Adolf HitlerSpeech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreemen...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it o...'newspaper sellers'Adolf HitlerSpeech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreemen...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Hitler's 18 July 1937 'address at Munich' (denouncing 'degenerate' art, and demanding a...Edward Morgan Forster Adolf Hitleraddress on national artPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Janet Penrose Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Mary Augusta Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Unknown, page proofs
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Mary Augusta Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrTorso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der AltenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun...George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrEin Jahr in ItalienPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Adolph Carl August EschenmayerPsychologie in drei TheilenPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to James and Julia Martin, 1 February 1847: 'We are reading (much at the latest) Custine's Russia'.Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAdolphe Marquis de CustineLa Russie en 1839Print: Book
1800-1849'I think he has great merit, uncommon clearness of style & thought, as an historian and a general impartiality, which extends sometimes to vice and virtue, despotism & li...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Adolphe ThiersHistoire de la Révolution FrançaisePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "In heart of Africa".'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Adolphus Frederick Albert Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin In the Heart of AfricaPrint: BookUnknown


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