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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
 
1700-1799'I began to read "Paul and Virginia" book that Mrs Braun brought here it is very pretty'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Bernardin de St PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1700-1799'I read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but though I was told I would weep many tears in reading it I...Eugenia Wynne Bernardin de St PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; an abstract of St. Pi...Mountstuart Elphinstone Bernardin de Saint-PierreEtudes de la Nature [abstract of]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'Mary Shelley Bernardin de St PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' Claire Clairmont Bernardo Davanzati BostichiTacito volgarizzatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' Claire Clairmont Bernardo Davanzati BostichiTacito volgarizzatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' Claire Clairmont Bernardo Davanzati BostichiTacito volgarizzatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Davanzati's Tacitus' [entered in Claire Clairmont's 1820 Journal on 22, 24, 27 Feb and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19 March (reading begun 19 February); 'Read a ...Claire Clairmont Bernardo Davanzati BostichiTacito volgarizzatoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'George Eliot [pseud] Bernardo Dovizi da BibbienaLa CalandraPrint: Book
1900-1945'80th day of imprisonment ... Friday. Slept well. Played cards sick of it ... 4 pcs from Joe and Ed. James. Started reading "Mystery of Hover Heath" by Bertram Mitford.' William Thomas Bertram MitfordHover Heath MysteryPrint: 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 Bertrand RussellEssays in ScepticismPrint: Book
1900-1945'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th...Elizabeth Ring Bertrand Russell Print: Book
1900-1945'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m...Herbert Hodge Bertrand Russell Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Julian Bell, 14 November 1936: 'Politics are still raging faster and fiercer [...] Leonard is trying to convince the labour party that the policy o...Leonard Woolf Bertrand RussellWhich Way to Peace?Print: Book
1900-19454 March 1918: 'I found a silent group at the [1917] Club, all men, & unknown to me, with the exception of Alix who sat still as a statue reading one of Berty Russell's ...Alix Sargant-Florence Bertrand RussellunknownPrint: Book
1900-19456 June 1918: 'I've seen Alix [...] She is able to conceive the possibility of one day finding some book to read. She has tried Bertie's mathematics, relinquished it, bu...Alix Sargant-Florence Bertrand RussellunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had a nice day yesterday lying out under the trees in a deck-chair reading Bertie Russell's "On Education". A good firm book.'Harold Nicolson Bertrand RussellOn EducationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks. I've just read the first chapter at once to take possession and have laid the book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] aside till Monday -- when the short story ...Joseph Conrad Bertrand RussellThe Problems of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am glad I read the little book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] before coming to your essays ["Philosophical Essays"]. If in reading the first I felt moving step by step...Joseph Conrad Bertrand RussellPhilosophical EssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for yourself — I have been dwelling with you mentally for several days between the covers of your book [...].' Joseph Conrad Bertrand RussellAnalysis of MindPrint: Book


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