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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'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Adoniram Judson GordonIn ChristPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Adonis epitaphsPrint: Book
1900-1945'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Webb, D.H. Lawrence and Adrian Bell. The commentary, is...prisoners of warAdrian Bell[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 March 1828: I have reconsidered Io [...] I quite agree with you in admiring the night visions, the geographical descriptions...Elizabeth Barrett Aeschlylus Prometheus BoundPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of...Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel)Aeschlylus Prometheus BoundPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'.George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ...George Gordon Lord Byron Aeschylus PrometheusPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Aeschylus  Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Aeschylus Prometheus VinctusPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Aeschylus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles ...Elizabeth Barrett Aeschylus playsPrint: Book
1800-1849'R[obert] B[rowning] wrote seven and a half pages of comments about E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett]'s revised translation [of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound], and ended with...Robert Browning Aeschylus Prometheus BoundManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He ...Oscar Wilde Aeschylus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Have you seen any reviews of Maeterlinck’s latest book, and if so, what do you think of the ideas it sets forth? There was a glorious piece of writing in last week’s...Ivor Bertie Gurney Aeschylus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "Peril at End House" by Agatha Christie; it is excellent.'Thomas Kitching Agatha ChristiePeril at End HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'Marshy Meadows by short cut and read Star Dreamer.'Verena Vera Pennefather Agnes CastleStar DreamerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".'George Eliot (pseud) Agnes CatlowPopular Field BotanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'You will receive in a few days the typescript of the novel of your new client, Mrs Farley, 16 rue de la Paix. . . . I have read through the novel, and had it altered to...Arnold Bennett Agnes FarleyAshdodManuscript: typescript
1900-1945'Today I saw a good review of your book ["Bernal Diaz del Castillo"] in the D[ai]ly Chr[onicle]: by some woman. I am going to get the vol. forthwith.' Joseph Conrad Agnes HerbertunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen Agnes and Egerton CastleThe Hope of the HousePrint: Book


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