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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'Prayer meeting 9 am. Litany & Sermon 10 am. Child of Boranzina died at 1 pm. Read "A God of Deliverance" by Saunders. It filled my eyes with tears & humbled me gre...Thomas Buchanan Reginald Westgate Alexander R. SaundersA God of DeliverancesPrint: Book
1900-1945'One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? from Hans Anderson to Boris Godonof.' Benjamin Britten Alexander Sergeevich PushkinBoris GodonofPrint: Book
1850-1899?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam...Samuel Bailey Alexander van HumboldtCosmosPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Aikin to her brother Edmund, dated March 1818: 'It is curious to observe the native eloquence of Humboldt struggling with the encombrance of all the sciences....Lucy Aikin Alexander von HumboldtPersonal Narrative of TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'If you really want to have a [notion] of tropical countries, study Humboldt.? Skip th[e] scientific parts & commence after leaving Teneriffe.? My feelings amount to admi...Charles Darwin Alexander von HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I am just now (when at home) reading 'Cosmos', a sketch of a physical description of the universe. Parts of it are very interesting, but others of too deeply scientifi...Eliza Ellis Alexander von HumboldtCosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of th...Print: Book
1850-1899'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I was shocked and delighted by "Eothen." I remember bei...Margaret Oliphant Alexander William KinglakeEothenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Travels in the East called Eothen, they are by a Mr Kinglake of Taunton a Chancery Barrister, and are written in a very lively manner; they will amuse Lord Grey who...Sydney Smith Alexander William KinglakeEothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thank you, my dearest for all the books you have presented me with, in particular for Fredro, qui m'a donné un plaisir extrème à lire et à regarder les images.'Joseph Conrad Alexandr FredroTrzy po TrzyPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas...Frederick Rogers Alexandre Dumas Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ...John Buchan Alexandre DumasValois cyclePrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ...John Buchan Alexandre DumasD'Artagnan cyclePrint: Book
1850-1899'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w...Robert Louis Stevenson Alexandre Dumas[novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she read "The Three Musketeers", which enabled her to step...Eleanor Farjeon Alexandre DumasThe Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Alexandre DumasThe Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "The Count of Monte Cristo" (abridged) which is simply superb. Bought "Song of Bernadette" at last.'Hilary Spalding Alexandre DumasCount of Monte Cristo, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading a book by Alexr Dumas fils called "Antonine", a stupid book in my opinion.'Albert Battiscombe Alexandre DumasAntoninePrint: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel Alexandre DumasThree MousequetairesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel Alexandre DumasMarquis de LetorierePrint: Book
1850-1899'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.' Arnold Bennett Alexandre DumasunknownPrint: Book


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