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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'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was more idle and hateful than ever..."The Tempest" seems t...Katherine Mansfield [newspapers]Print: Book
1900-1945'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was more idle and hateful than ever..."The Tempest" seems t...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 3rd. Cloudy day. Went with Col Pasteurs to look over the French Hospital at the Imperial Hotel. Read the "Decline and Fall" all afternoon and evening.'Martin Wentworth Littlewood Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinate me. Why does J. [Middleton Murry] hate it so? To ...Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinate me. Why does J. [Middleton Murry] hate it so? To ...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 5... J. and I read "Mansfield Park" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as he appears? It seems too good to be true.'Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 5... Read "Cosmic Anatomy". I managed to work a little.'Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'Katherine Mansfield variousThe Oxford English DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'Katherine Mansfield The story of Jonah and the WhalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should have been and was not," Winifred confessed, lamenting...Winifred Holtby George MooreHeloise and AbelardPrint: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations (203)'.Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire...Print: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.Claire Clairmont Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guineas for the article on Richter. You may conceive wh...Thomas Carlyle Franz HornUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Jenkin wrote to say he would second me in such a nice little notelet. I shall go in for it (the Savile I mean) whether "V.H." is accepted or not, being now a man of mean...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Charles Fleeming JenkinletterManuscript: Letter


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