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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'Last week worked through Lawrence of Arabia - tributes to him by his friends.'Vere Hodgson Thomas Edward LawrenceT. E. Lawrence by His FriendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lastly there was a rather striking article in a recent Scribner on new ideas in French Literature generally in which the name of Barr?s was prominent.' Arnold Bennett 'Scribner'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Lately I have been reading Wordsworth with joy, for almost the first time. "Michael" quite overcame me by its perfect simplicity & power. I have read it about ten time...Arnold Bennett William Wordsworth'Michael'Print: Book
1900-1945'Lately I've been reading books about China and Russia. I figure it out this way: I read the newspapers and meet different kinds of people, and they all have to say somet... unknown[books about China and Russia]Print: Book
1900-1945'Lately I've got interested in Spiritualism. I've read one book about it, I thought it was a lot of rubbish. That was written by a Minister; this one is just by an ordina...Arthur FindlayThe Unfolding UniversePrint: Book
1850-1899'Later I had determined to spend a Whit-Monday at the Alexandra Palace, and on my way thither bought an eighteen-penny copy of Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus". Arriving at th...Thomas Okey Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Later I sent my mother a clipping from the Louisville "Courier-Journal", whose woman reporter had been present.'Vera Brittain Courier-JournalPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Siegfried SassoonWar PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Robert Graves[war poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Edmund Blunden[war poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Wilfred Owen[war poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the evenings".'Grace Macaulay William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on he talked laughingly of the cheap editions he had been wont to buy of Mark Twain's masterpieces, and spoke reminiscently of reading these books when he was on t...Joseph Conrad Mark TwainunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected and bound into four volumes
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...William Makepeace Thackeray[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Joseph AddisonSpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson HomerIlliadPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book


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