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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
 
1800-1849'If you happen to have heard Mr. Sullivan's conversation with me about "From Oxford to Rome' it may interest you to know that the authoress is a Miss Harris, daughter of ...Mary Russell Mitford Elizabeth HarrisFrom Oxford to RomePrint: Book
1850-1899“What further stimulated Ruddy’s interest in the British soldier was a book he reviewed for his paper: Nathaniel Bancroft’s “From Recruit to Staff Sergeant” the autobiog...Rudyard Kipling Nathaniel BancroftFrom Recruit to Staff SergeantPrint: Book
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1900-1945		Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) thinks that Ionia observed and experimented freely; that ...Edward Morgan Forster F. M. CornfordFrom Religion to PhilosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was The Waste Land that compelled recognition... The title, we know, comes from Miss J. L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, the theme of which is anthropological...T. S. Eliot Jessie L. WestonFrom Ritual to RomancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? writers of the period between the two named. It wa...Winifred Agnes Moore Havelock EllisFrom Rousseau to ProustPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Muriel Stevens Mary TrevelyanFrom the Ends of the EarthPrint: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Charles Evans L.P. JacksFrom the Human EndPrint: Book
1800-1849'From Byron' 'The Chain I Gave Was Fair to View.../'Julia George Gordon, Lord ByronFrom the Turkish [The Chain I Gave]Print: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'The Front Line book has just been issued, and we are all reading it. Managed to snaffle Mr Hillyard's copy before he had seen it himself, and have wept many tears this...Vere Hodgson Ministry of Home Security Front Line 1940-41: The Official Story of the Civi...Print: Book
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 E.M. AlmedingenFrossiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Susan] is reading [italics] Frost [end italics]. She was terrified by the story of the lost child in the cellar.'Susan Glossop Antonia WhiteFrost at MidnightPrint: Book
1850-1899'" " (not finished)' [The ditto marks are below the words 'Aug.Grand']Sarah Good Elisabeth WernerFruhlingsbotenPrint: Book
1850-1899'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay ?Fruit Blossom Time? & then your nameless novel.'Arnold Bennett George SturtFruit Blossom TimeManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1850-1899[On blank recto flyleaf at the beginning of the volume:] 'My Dear Brown,/ Here it is, with the mark of a San Francisco BOUQUINISTE. And if ever in all my "human conduct" ...Robert Louis Stevenson William PennFruits of SolitudePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I made me readie, and then went to work and hard Mr Rhides read of Latimers sarmons and some other thinges'Richard Rhodes Hugh LatimerFruteful SermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Mary Shelley Thomas MooreFudge Family in Paris, The. Edited by Thomas Brown...Print: Book
1900-1945'Well you know I think I'd read number 15 first. I did read it the other day as a matter of fact. It's got a bit of a kick to it, you want to see what they say after the ... Fuel economy leaflet 15Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Ivan TurgenievFumée Print: Book
1850-1899'That time Lord Tennyson was delightful - kind and friendly and full of stories, talking a great deal, and in the best of humours. He read the Funeral Ode to us afterwar...Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord TennysonFuneral OdePrint: Book
1800-1849‘...I did not and do not, admire any of his [Robert Southey’s] laureate poetry - (except the epicedian on the Princess, which is beautiful) nor agree with all his Artic...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyFuneral Ode on the Death of the Princess CharlottePrint: Book, Serial / periodical


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