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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'I... am going through an English literature of Kirk's by Andrew Lang. Lang is always charming whatever he does - or "did" as we must unfortunately say, and this book i...Clive Staples Lewis Andrew LangHistory of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Sw...Print: Book
1900-1945'I?m also doing a series of four-part songs for Peter & his Round-table singers to "first-perform" at the Aeolian Hall on November 24th. I?ve done four so far ? fairly ex...Benjamin Britten Gerard Manley Hopkins[religious poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m trying to get through Spengler?s second volume of The Dec...Winifred Agnes Moore Oswald SpenglerDecline of the WestPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m trying to get through Spengler?s second volume of The Dec...Winifred Agnes Moore Marcel ProustDu Cote de Chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m reading "Of Human Bondage" of Somerset Maugham & it?s terribly good ? some wonderful school stuff, & of course the whole thing, in his subtle way, is quite itching w...Peter Pears Somerset MaughanOf Human BondagePrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me it was wonderful to see in print for the first time ?...Winifred Agnes Moore MontagueD?senchantementPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterpiece.'Winifred Agnes Moore unknownOakroydPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington Bishop WatsonApology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas PainePrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington Bishop PorteusCompendium of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington AddisonEvidences of the Christian ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington Madame de GenlisReligion the only Basis of Happiness and true Phil...Print: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington Bishop ButlerDivine AnalogyPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington BentleySermons on the Folly of AtheismPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington JenkinsReasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Relig...Print: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington PaleyEvidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1850-1899'If Clynes needed a second lesson in the subversive power of print, it came when his foreman nearly sacked him for sneaking a look at "Paradise Lost" during a work break ...J.R. Clynes John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'If I enjoy a book I often write to its author. It seems to me a matter of politeness between one artist and another. Having read A London Child I wrote to Molly [Hughes]...Molly V HughesA London Child of the SeventiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, witho...Jane Baillie Welsh Leigh HuntThe Wishing CapPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'If Machen?s onslaught is worse than Jimmy Douglas?s in the ?Star?, it will be a treat.' Arnold Bennett James Douglas Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'If my father saw my mother, brother or myself reading a book he would cruise around and pounce on it if we put it down when we went out of the room. When we returned the...Joseph Conrad  Print: Book


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