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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 like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'Margaret MitchellGone with the windPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - 'Mein Kampf'. Oh, I lik...Margaret MitchellGone with the WindPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday...Eric Shipton Margaret MitchellGone with the WindPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell - A most remarkable book. I enjoyed it very much, but what a little bitch Scarlet O'Hara is! Vic's invariable ...Thomas Kitching Margaret MitchellGone with the windPrint: Book
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 J.B. PriestleyGood CompanionsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ...Hilary Spalding J.B. PriestleyGood Companions, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945‘One afternoon a sentry of ours was hit in the head and killed while he stood quite out of observation. I was in my tiny dugout reading Mr. Masefield’s “Good Friday” whe...Edmund Blunden John MasefieldGood Friday: A Play in VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'But it was in a "Good Housekeeping" article on "How to Enjoy Bad Health" that she quoted the remarks with which he prefaced his announcement that she could not hope to l...Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbyGood Housekeeping magazine "How to Enjoy Bad Healt...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf Sylvia Leonora Brook, Ranee of SarawakGood Morning and Good NightPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was lately forced into the rather close examination of this book, for I had to translate it into French, that forcing me to give it much closer attention than would be...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordGood Soldier, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'a fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the [underlined] Good Soldier [end underlining] is the finest novel in the English Language!" whereupon my friend Mr John Ro...Ford Madox FordGood Soldier, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'a fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the [underlined] Good Soldier [end underlining] is the finest novel in the English Language!" whereupon my friend Mr John Ro...John Rodker Ford Madox FordGood Soldier, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Louisa May AlcottGood WivesPrint: Book
1850-1899J.H. Ewing diary entry, July 13th 1869: 'Good Words'. Juliana Horatia Ewing [n/a]Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'There is a nice little bit of poetry about that in an old number of Good Words.' Robert Louis Stevenson Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from the difficulties of the English language. He gave the ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Commenced reading a tale in Good Words "Oswald [?]"'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Good Words for the YoungPrint: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. Minutes of last read + approved.

3. A. B. D...		Muriel Stevens Eleanor AclandGood-bye for the Present: The story of two childho...Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although this play was Goldsmith's first experiment in writing ...members of XII Book ClubOliver GoldsmithGood-natured Man, ThePrint: Book


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