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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
 
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Ralph Waldo TrineIn Tune with the InfinitePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Denton WelchIn Youth is PleasurePrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces letter from Mary Berry to 'Mr. Everett' of Harvard College, of 25 August 1846, in which she praises, and discusses in detail, the 'inaugural...Mary Berry Mr EverettInaugural discourse given at Harvard CollegeUnknown
1900-1945'Forgive me for not thanking you sooner for the book ["Incidences"]. It's my gouty wrist I can barely hold a pen. But I don't need to tell you that I find your pages alwa...Joseph Conrad André GideIncidencesPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Katharine, I have gone over your paper at last (I would have done it sooner, had I found the time) [?].'Robert Louis Stevenson Katharine de MattosIncluded "Miss Griffin"?Manuscript: Sheet, RLS calls it "your paper".
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edmund Elys, 'Inconstancy'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Edmund ElysInconstancyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to show a rather crumpled East India Company employee, ...John Drummond Erskine William TennantIndian recreations: consisting of strictures on th...Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 10 February 1910: 'I left off the last [letter to Darling] saying that I was going to tell you something special in the next, and now...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest B. HavellIndian Sculpture and Painting ... with an Explanat...Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in lis...Katherine S. Evans John GalsworthyIndian Summer of a ForsytePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'When you have a spare day [...] do send me some Indian papers -- the Pioneer, and if possible something Nationalist & ...Edward Morgan Forster Valentine ChiriolIndian UnrestPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-co...Elizabeth Barrett George SandIndianaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Dec. 12th. [...] Read Indicators by Hunt'.Claire Clairmont Leigh HuntIndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Wednesday Dec. 13th. [...] Read Indicators'.Claire Clairmont Leigh HuntIndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'Mary Shelley [n/a]IndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Greek - not well - Indicators'Mary Shelley [n/a]IndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'Mary Shelley Leigh Hunt (ed.)Indicator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes handwritten insertion of names of persons identified only by initials in H. Giles's copy of B. L. Putnam Weale, Indiscreet Letters from Peking (an "a...H. Giles B. L. Putnam WealeIndiscreet Letters from PekingPrint: Book
1900-1945'After dinner it was warmer and I sat on deck and read "Les Cosaques". I finished Putnam Neale's [sic] "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" in the afternoon, a curious book.'...Gertrude Bell B. L. Putnam WealeIndiscreet Letters from Peking: being the notes of...Print: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Sidney and Beatrice WebbIndustrial DemocracyPrint: Book
1800-1849'She speaks of "Inez" as about to be produced. I have been long expecting to hear that it was out. Do you remember reading it to me (excepting the fourth act, which was n...Fanny Trollope Mary Russell MitfordInezManuscript: Unknown


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