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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
 
1600-1699'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there searched and found my Uncle Day's will and read it over...Samuel Pepys Beatrice Day[Will]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume; read January 1925Vernon Lee Beatrice EdgellTheories of MemoryPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
    Howard R. Smith in the chair.

[...]

7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon...		Francis E. Pollard Beatrice Saxon-SnellLove Came InPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
    Howard R. Smith in the chair.

[...]

7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Isabel Taylor Beatrice Saxon-SnellLove Came InPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

[...]

7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Elsie Harrod Beatrice Saxon-SnellLove Came InPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

[...]

7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Bruce Dilks Beatrice Saxon-SnellLove Came InPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

[...]

7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Howard Smith Beatrice Saxon-SnellLove Came InPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some of 1923 this morning, being headachy again'.Virginia Woolf Beatrice WebbMy ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1900-1945'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o...Frank Argent Beatrice and Sidney Webb Print: Book
1900-1945'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her...Chaim Bermant Beatrix Potter[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Beatrix PotterPeter RabbitPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Beatrix PotterunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Muriel Stevens Beatrix PotterThe Tale of Samuel WhiskersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41
F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet...		Violet Clough Beatrix Potter[Unnamed tales]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure — Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher — there are on the t...John Keats Beaumont & Fletcher The Maid's TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('...Edward Morgan Forster Bede Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13)Print: Book
1800-1849I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pasca...James Lackington Beilby PorteusA Summary of the Principle Evidences for the Truth...Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Nov. 30th. [...] Read the [...] Novella of Belfegor da Macchivelli.'Claire Clairmont Belfegor da MachiavelliNovella piacevolissimaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 9th January, Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking with Mother re Cambridge Economics. Advertising is ...Gerald Moore Belfort BaxEssays on SocialismPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles in the Second Book]: "Cicero's best".Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book


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