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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'... frightfully dull ... During the afternoon I went out to the after superstructure for a time & then came down to the Gun Room & read.'Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1900-1945'I woke up feeling extremely bored with life ... it was a foul day, like yesterday. I did exactly the same things ... During the forenoon the sea gave signs of goin...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Just reading a book called Us and the Americans ... what they do not understand, and what they like. Our gardens impress everyone.'Vere Hodgson Anon Anon[Us and the Americans]Print: Book
1900-1945'We set off early along a dry river-bed green with date palms on either bank, pursued by thousands of flies which we could not get rid off until we reached the cold...Doreen Ingrams Anon Anon[poems]Print: Book, Read in Arabic
1900-1945'Hasan, smoking wisps of paper filled with green tobacco, walked on reciting poems composed by his father about Harold and the R.A.F. and chucked his long brown fin...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown Arabic poems in praise of the RAF and Har...Unknown
1900-1945When I reached home I found a man with a qasida in praise of Harold in his hand. 'He has broken the horns of the wicked', it says. I wonder if this has any relation...Freya Stark Anon Anon[Arabic qasida (praise poem) in praise of Harold I...Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945I have spent a meandering day taking last pictures in the town with the Qadhi, who read out the carved inscriptions of the tombs, and standing with upturned palms w...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown tomb inscriptions and Qu'ranic supplicati...Unknown
1900-1945It is a huge citadel, nearly a mile in length I should guess, on a low and stony ridge going east and west [...] the inscription is inside the southern gateway and ...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown Sabaean inscription at Naqb al-Hajar]Unknown
1900-1945Great black blocks, roughly cut, show the seawall protecting the citadel's approach; and on a ledge east of the causeway the two inscriptions in the rock are clear ...Freya Stark Anon Anonunknown inscriptionsUnknown
1850-1899'One of the books I read then for the first time was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres [sic], who had been ...William Henry Hudson Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken down Gibbon's work and read occasionally therein; and,...George Grote anon ('ancient writers')  Print: Book
1700-1799Read 'The Prude'.Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.Print: Book
1700-1799Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire.Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.Print: Book
1700-1799Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'.Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.Print: Book
1850-1899'[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed − a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit Poeme en Prose] was about. It is a little cruciform pla...Robert Louis Stevenson Anon [Apprently the father of the dead child] [memorial on grave]Manuscript: Inscription carved on school slate.
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
Victor Alexander Anon [member of the XII Book Club] Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 Mar...
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunt...George Eliot (pseud) anon. [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge anonymous A Dialogue on Parliamentary ReformPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly written they are in my mind much superior to Blairs ...John Clare Anonymous Eighteen Sermons Intended to EstablishPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been for some time amusing myself with the "Arabian Nights" Entertainments, to whose fascinating influence I am quite ductile...'Thomas Green Anonymous Arabian Nights EntertainmentsPrint: Book


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