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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'It rained all the afternoon. I finished "L'Etape" and began Sir A Lyall's "English in India" and was rather bored and cold.' Gertrude Bell Alfred C. Lyall?The Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion in...Print: Book
1850-1899'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article on Hayward is very good. Sir Edward Hamley, I think?...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It seems to me that I have to write to you in the same nagging strain as I do to Wells, In spite of my brotherly admonitions & my fatherly threats apropos of previous b...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe CaptivesPrint: Book
1900-1945'It seems to me the loveliest, wisest, richest book that I have ever read, - excelling even your own Lighthouse.'Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfOrlandoManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Montparnasse", by C.L. Philippe (if you haven?t already ...Arnold Bennett C.L. PhilippeBubu de MontparnassePrint: Book
1900-1945'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Montparnasse", by C.L. Philippe (if you haven?t already ...Arnold Bennett J.H. RosnyDans les ruesPrint: Book
1800-1849'It so happened that you were the very first man in England that testified approbation of my rude genius after the publication of the Mountain Bard, which you did to Mr S...Robert Surtees James HoggMountain Bard, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'It was a bad night — a high gale and rain. Wallace had ridden into Amiens and brought back a paper. The Germans have retired on a front of eighty-two miles and no one kn...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [?French newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'It was a change to spend such a lazy day. We read the Apocrypha, I remember, and wandered a little, but not very far afield, not much further than the spring where...Vita Sackville-West unknown unknownBible - the ApocryphaPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was a change to spend such a lazy day. We read the Apocrypha, I remember, and wandered a little, but not very far afield, not much further than the spring where...Vita Sackville-West unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'It was a joy to have your book ["Hors du Foyer"]. A thousand thanks. I have just finished reading it and, and I am charmed.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaHors du FoyerPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was about noon, and the officers had all gone home to their dinners, when, as I sat on my stool munching my loaf and reading Boswell's "Life of Dr Johnson", I heard a...James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799'It was about this time that I first met with Milton's "Paradise Lost", in a thick volume with engravings and copious notes, probably a copy of Bishop Newton's edition of...Thomas Carter John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa...Thomas Carter Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1800-1849'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa...Thomas Carter William Cowper[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa...Thomas Carter James ThomsonLiberty, a PoemPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was agreed to purchase a second copy of the News Chronicle to meet the extra demand for examining the situations vacant adverts by unemployed.'Readers at Uxbridge Library News ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It was an exhilarating coincidence that my re-reading of H.T.'s "As It Was" should follow just after I had made my diary entry on the "spiritual" type of women suggested...William Soutar H. ThomasAs It WasPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was at this meeting, where she was one of the speakers, that I first saw Rebecca West, whose novel "The Judge", which had recently been published, I had read with a d...Vera Brittain Rebecca WestThe JudgePrint: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter [n/a]The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical


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