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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'Fine day. Gym balances almost done. No letters. Read the Green Flag by Doyle. Ev Bridge. Play improving.'William Thomas Arthur Conan DoyleThe Green FlagPrint: Book
1900-1945Thurs. Lovely day. Read Lost World by Conan Doyle. Nil [i.e., no mail].William Thomas Arthur Conan DoyleThe Lost WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read the Poison Belt by A. Conan Doyle.'William Thomas Arthur Conan DoyleThe Poison BeltPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Round the Fire Stories by Conan Doyle. Joined the Library. Started Lettres de Mon Moulin Par Alphonse Daudet. No sign of peace. Will it last another year 2:1 it wil...William Thomas Arthur Conan DoyleRound the Fire StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Since leaving Oxford I have had quite a little opportunity for reading and have read all kinds of things, some of the better books being: Conan Doyle's "Micah Clar...Roderick Ward Maclennan Arthur Conan DoyleMicah ClarkePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Arthur Corbett-SmithMarne—And After, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Lately I've got interested in Spiritualism. I've read one book about it, I thought it was a lot of rubbish. That was written by a Minister; this one is just by an ordina...Arthur FindlayThe Unfolding UniversePrint: Book
1800-1849'Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it a good style. He is a bold man and great names do no...Sydney Smith Arthur HallamHistory Of Europe During The Middle AgesPrint: Book
1800-1849Aubrey De Vere, on how he 'first made acquaintance with Alfred Tennyson's poetry': 'Lord Houghton, then Richard Monckton Milnes, a Cambridge friend of my eldest brothe...Aubrey De Vere Arthur HallamEssay on Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In a post-war record entitled "Bomber Offensive", Sir Arthur Harris himself described the ordeal of Hamburg, which caused civilian casualties variously estimated at betw...Vera Brittain Arthur HarrisBomber OffensivePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Helps's Realmah yesterday and the day before. [...] His essays are old-womanish. I have to "set a paper" on that book and am quite unprepared to ask a single ques...Sir Walter Raleigh Arthur HelpsRealmahPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Friends in Council'.' Mary Holland Arthur HelpsFriends in Council: A Series of Readings and Disco...Print: Book
1850-1899'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the first place you say you do not call The 3 paths a nov...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur HelpsFriends in CouncilPrint: Book
1800-1849'Which has indeed very much of good thought & happy expression & confirms the feeling of satisfaction that he in any way belonged to me'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Arthur HelpsThe Claims of LabourPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 20 September 1849:

'I read with pleasure "Friends in Council," and with very great pleasure "The Thoughts and Opinions of a...		Charlotte Brontë Arthur HelpsFriends in Council: A Series of Readings and Disco...Print: Book
1800-1849'Extract from Murphy's Grecian Daughter' 'Filial Affection'member of Carey/Maingay groupArthur MurphyThe Grecian DaughterUnknown
1700-1799'Speaking of Arthur Murphy, whom he very much loved, "I don't know (said he) that Arthur can be classed with the very first dramatick writers; yet at present I doubt much...Samuel Johnson Arthur Murphy[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'At the time when Owen Ruffhead was writing the "Contest" in opposition to Murphy's "Test"; Gilbert Cooper it seems thought so highly of the performance that he would per...Gilbert Cooper Arthur MurphyContestPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Arthur MurphyGrecian Daughter, the: A tragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday October 13 [...] Read Memoirs of O'Connor'. Claire Clairmont Arthur O'Connor, T. A. Emmett, and W. J. McNevinMemoir on the Objects of the Societies of United I...Print: Book


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