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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'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not onl...Sydney Larkin Aldous Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astonishing skill and verve, but too diffuse by far in its movem...Arnold Bennett Aldous HuxleyOn the MarginPrint: Book
1900-1945'Had Aldous Huxley been as richly endowed with imagination as with intellectual penetration, his "Brave New World" might have been a truly creative challenge to our machi...William Soutar Aldous HuxleyBrave New WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Francis E. Pollard Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Margaret Dilks Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Elsie Harrod Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Kenneth F. Nicholson Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Isabel Taylor Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Sylvanus A. Reynolds Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Bruce Dilks Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Roger Moore Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Howard Smith Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Muriel Stevens Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Arnold Joselin Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Rosamund Wallis Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.George Eliot [pseud.] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.George Eliot [pseud] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899
'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half wa...Elizabeth Barrett Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 ...Mary Shelley Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book



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