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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'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events o...Ursula Unwin William Henry HudsonHampshire DaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Portsmouth paper gave a melancholy history of a poor Mad Woman, escaped from Confinement, who said her Husband & Daughter of the Name of Payne lived at Ashford in Ke...Jane Austen Hampshire TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I wonder whether you happened to see Mr Blackall's marriage in the Papers last Janry. [italics] We [end italics] did. He was married at Clifton to a Miss Lewis, whose F...Jane Austen Hampshire Telegraph, Births, Marriages and Deaths ...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945' I am disappointed that it is not raining, but bethought myself that it might rain at the time of the procession. I washed, dressed and shaved in an even more leisurely ...Emile BurnsHandbook of MarxismPrint: Book
1900-1945'I knew that enlistment in the Navy was out of the question, because I had not the faintest hope of passing the eyesight test ... At last, while I was still itching with ...Desmond Malone John Clayborough HawksheadHandbook of Technical Instruction for Wireless Tel...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Georg August GoldfussHandbuch der ZoologiePrint: 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 Neil BellHandsome Langleys, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that he was not insured, a child playing with matches is...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Handy AndyPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The house in which I was born was ... a two-centuries-old Georgian mansion, a barrack of a place that seemed even larger in my juvenile perspective than it actually was ...Desmond Malone Samuel LoverHandy AndyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday. No letters ... 11 Parade 11.30 Gym. Walked about. Read Handy Andy by Sam Lover. Irish rot. Little French more bridge.'William Thomas Samuel LoverHandy AndyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Andrews seems very pleasant and we had a fierce forenoon of it over meteorology. He has Bookan (as he calls him)...'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexander BuchanHandy Book of Meteorology [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'Alfred and Emily Tennyson Hanes CymruPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "Hangman's Holiday" with great enjoyment.'Hilary Spalding Dorothy SayersHangman's HolidayPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Mary" At fond sixteen my roving Heart Was pierced by love's delightful Dart, ...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJames MontgomeryHannahUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue 22/10/45
Arnold G. Joselin in the chair

1. The minutes of the previous meeting were read & signed.

...		Cyril Langford James Leslie MitchellHanno, or, The future of explorationPrint: Book
1900-1945'I could begin to read one of the books that had been given to me ... and lose myself in another world. [Followed by a list of the books enjoyed].'Eileen Lawrence Hans AndersenHans Andersen's Fairy Tales
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 28 December 1847: I have only got Hansard to-day; I have marked the particular passages in the Coercion Bill debate, and se...Lord George Bentinck Hansard (parliamentary reports)Print: Serial / periodical
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 Laurence HousmanHappy and GloriousPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Happy World" is a very charming description of the best bits of the old landed way of life. The race as a whole seems to me to emphasise only its bad characteristics, s... unknownHappy WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue fro...Charles Evans Charles ReadeHard CashPrint: Book


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