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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'Just before leaving Paris I read the first instalment of "F. of G." in Pearson?s & thought it extremely good, barring a few minime verbal infelicities. It cost me 2 fr...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe Food of the GodsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there is the imprint of a fine artist upon this ballad, as...William Soutar [unknown]EdwardPrint: Book
1850-1899'Just now I am reading a most excellent & very English novel, 'Lying Prophets', by Eden Phillpotts. I have lately got rather chummy with Phillpotts & he is a grand chap,...Arnold Bennett Eden PhillpottsLying ProphetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it is the most agreeable & diverting thing in non-imagi...Arnold Bennett James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Just now I opened Spencer, and the first Lines I saw were these.- "The noble Heart that harbors vertuous thought, And is with Child of glorious great intent, Can neve...John Keats Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'Just now I'm reading books [of] what I call Geography plus books that give great insight in [to] different places. I'm reading now the causes and conditions that brought...Gerald SamsonWarning Light of AsiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Just read Lord Elton's book St George and the Dragon. He represents a new planet in the sky for me. He analyses the thought of the last 20 years and the movements th...Vere Hodgson Godfrey EltonSt. George or the Dragon: Towards a Christian Demo...Print: Book
1900-1945'Just read the life of Grand Duke Cyril. He was in the flagship at Port Arthur sunk by the Japs years ago. He seems to have lived well until the Revolution. But no on...Vere Hodgson Cyril VladimirovichMy Life in Russia's Service, Then and NowPrint: Book
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'K.S. Evans assisted [her husband's discussion of superstition] by reading from Walter Raymond's "The Book of Simple Delights".'Katherine Evans Walter RaymondThe Book of Simple DelightsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Kant's Geografica Fisica'Mary Shelley Immanuel KantPhysische GeographiePrint: Book
1850-1899'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already occured to me and was arranged with General Bruce, th...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley [n/a]PsalmsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Katherine Mansfield is a cunt, but I share a hell of a lot of common characteristics with her. I should like to read her letters again. The trouble with her seems to be ...Philip Larkin Katherine MansfieldLetters and diaryUnknown
1800-1849'Kehama has not got justice take a bards word who never flatters he will live for ever'.James Hogg Robert SoutheyCurse of Kehama, ThePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or seventeen. He had to read it through three times be...James Keir Hardie Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Kept Babs at home as I was afraid he'd be too tired in the morning for the early start. He watched Baby have her bath, then had his hair cut & bought cakes while N...Verena Pennefather Henry Rider HaggardEric BrighteyesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Kept Dick in bed all day. Read "King Solomon's Mines" to him & worked with Tub at the Dutch garden.'Verena Pennefather Henry Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1850-1899'King Lear'Sarah Good William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1900-1945'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young...Lawrence Durrell Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1900-1945'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young...Lawrence Durrell George Alfred Henty[unknown]Print: Book


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