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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[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 Caryl BrahmsFootnotes to the BalletPrint: Book
1900-1945‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rudyard KiplingFor all we have and arePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thursday 19th August ?For faith and Freedom? ? (Walter Besant)'. Gerald Moore Walter BesantFor Faith and FreedomPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward IrvingFor Missionaries after the Apostolical SchoolPrint: Book
1900-1945‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Laurence BinyonFor the FallenPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have published it - till after a considerable time. There is...Thomas Carlyle Edward IrvingFor The Oracles Of God, Four OrationsPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell TollsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was very good).'Ernest HemingwayFor whom the Bell TollsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an odd thing') from chapter 13 of Ernest Hemingway, For ...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell TollsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading "Forbidden Journey" written by Ella Maillart in 1936, I am interest in her remarks about our friend, the enemy: "Once again, I saw the military supreme, not only...Thomas Kitching Ella MaillartForbidden JourneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read Knight's pamphlet. Pretty good, though I think, if I had seen as much, I could have told my story better'.Sydney Smith Henry Gally KnightForeign and Domestic View of the Catholic QuestionPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper foreign language grammarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the copy of the "E.[English] R.[Review]". You won't mind me saying that your article on international politics is first rate. It has the quality of naked trut...Joseph Conrad Austin HarrisonForeign PoliticsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Once more amongst the old gigantic hills/...' 'Foreign Literary Review Janury 1832.'Bowly group [n/a]Foreign Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, 21 February 1851: 'In reading Lord Holland's book, which I did very cursorily, I was more struck by its dulness than by any other ...Lord Aberdeen Henry Richard Lord HollandForeign ReminiscencesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 13-14 January 1846: 'Will you have Miss Martineau's books when I can lend them to you? Just at this moment I [italics]dare not[en...Moulton-Barrett familyHarriet MartineauForest and Game Law TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'How good of you to send me these books. I am ashamed to say that I forget whether I thanked you for the last - but I [underlined] do [end underlining] thank you. I liked...Mary Shelley Harriet MartineauForest and Game-law TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws" I began, but they are so dull to me that I have sca...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Harriet MartineauForest and Game-Law TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones James Prior (pseud.)Forest FolkPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lover...Howard R. Smith Maurice HewlettForest Lovers, ThePrint: Book


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