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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'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an e...Anne Romilly Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an e...Mr Edgeworth Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think I have never written to you since I read ''Glenarvon''. I agree with you in admiring it exceedingly in some respects [...] I almost think that as a picture of th...Sarah Wedgwood Caroline, Lady LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 17 June 1840: '["Glencoe"] never reached me until last week [...] Thank you my dearest Georgie! [...] It was, as ...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Noon TalfourdGlencoePrint: Book
1800-1849'...This morning I learnt (by reading it in the Globe) the sudden death of Lord Holland after a few hours' illness, and whom I left not a fortnight ago in his usual healt...Charles Greville GlobePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945While her terminally ill sister Anne was staying at a nursing home in Priory Road, West Hampstead, Charlotte Mew 'came every day with novels to read aloud and amuse them ...Charlotte Mew David GarnettGo She MustPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley God and My NeighbourPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Sep. The story of a hate'Sarah Good Robert BuchananGod and the ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sculptress Kathleen Bruce, widow of the Arctic explorer Captain Scott ... became positively scornful when she read [H. G.] Wells's "God the Invisible King" in 1917 ....Kathleen Bruce H. G. WellsGod the Invisible KingPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the ...Charles Stansfield Herbert George WellsGod the Invisible KingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
3. A letter from R. H....		Victor Alexander H. G. WellsGod the Invisible KingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
3. A letter from ...		Victor Alexander H. G. WellsGod the Invisible KingPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've just finished Wells's God the Invisible King. I have to write a criticism of it for the friend who sent it to me ... I began it with the firm convictio...Herbert Edward Read Herbert George WellsGod the Invisible KingPrint: Book
1900-1945'She pinned it to her coat; and returned to London reading the 1349 closely-typed pages of St. John Ervine's recently completed biography of General Booth, "God's Soldier...Winifred Holtby St. John ErvineGod's SoldierPrint: Book
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the "Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely...Gertrude Bell Sarah Gertrude MillinGod's Step-ChildrenPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & tease...Virginia Woolf John Middleton MurryGod: an Introduction to the Science of MetabiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery Godey's Lady's BookPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wish...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerGodolphinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for your green book which I have read with the greatest of interest.'Joseph Conrad Gold Coast Blue BookPrint: Book
1850-1899'Charming'Sarah Good Eugenie MarlittGold ElsePrint: Book


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