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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'Lottie's kind of reading, though I could manage it, was not mine; it was usually fiction conducive of the domestic virtues. At the club, my father discovered a...Charlotte Margaret Blunden [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Lottie's kind of reading, though I could manage it, was not mine; it was usually fiction conducive of the domestic virtues. At the club, my father discovered a num...Edmund Blunden Jules VerneThe Mysterious IslandPrint: Book
1800-1849'loud... parts of it forcibly stated, but too inflamatory'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Henry MelvillSermon on Protestantism and PoperyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Louis 14 certainly never fell into the error Mrs Millamant cautioned her intended husband against in a clever wicked old play that you never read: "Good Mirabel, do not ...Louisa, Lady Stuart William CongreveWay of the World, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Louis and I have begun reading "Westward Ho!" together [...] He reads to me every day out of "Westward Ho!" which I think very beautiful and interesting'Alice Maud Mary or "Princess Alice" Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school exp...Louis Battye Frank Richards[stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school exp...Louis Battye Frank Richards[stories in the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoon read it to him [in 1920]'.Siegfried Sassoon Charlotte Mew"Madeleine in Church"Unknown
1700-1799'Louisa and I began this day to read French. Our book was a little light piece of French gallantry entitled 'Journal Amoureux'. She pronounced best and I translated best....James Boswell and Louisa [anon.]Journal AmoureuxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Love's Wreath!' 'When Love was a Child and went rolling along/...'Carey/Maingay group[Thomas] [Moore?]'When Love was a Child' OR ['Loves Wreath']Print: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Susan WarnerThe Wide Wide WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Frederick MarryatMasterman ReadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Charlotte Mary YongeThe Little DukePrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Harriet MartineauSettlers at HomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Frederick MarryatThe Children of the New ForestPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Elizabeth Anna HartThe RunawayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield George MacdonaldThe Princess and the GoblinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lovely day ... Read in afternoon and played bridge — lost 4f 25 c! Bed — v cold!'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lovely fine day — sat out wrapped up and read Freeman and did Italian with Hugo till he felt uncomfy and went down.'Gertrude Bell Edward Augustus FreemanunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lovely hot day. Read Oppenheim and played Bridge after lunch.'Gertrude Bell Max von OppenheimVom Mittelmeer zum persischen Golf durch den Haurä...Print: Book


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