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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
 
1800-1849'Lovely lines - but I knew them before ... the two last, two years ago in ... Schneidemn's Greek fragments - a book Frank Lushington had and which I ever since intended t...Alfred Tennyson F W SchneidewinDelectus Presis Graeconim elegiacae, iambinis, mel...Print: Book
1900-1945'Lovely week-end with Kit. Reached Watford about 1.30.... She is passionately interested in Polar exploration and had a book on Dr Wilson. I skimmed through. There we...Vere Hodgson George SeaverEdward Wilson of the Antarctic, Naturalist and Fri...Print: Book
1800-1849'Loves Last Lesson' 'Teach me if you can- Forgetfulness!'Mary Groom L.E. LandonLove's Last LessonUnknown
1500-1599'Luca Gaurico's "Tractatus Astrologicus" is a work giving horoscopes and brief descriptions of noted persons and of city-states and towns, each being illustrated by an as...Gabriel Harvey Luca GauricoTractatus AstrologicusPrint: Book
1800-1849'lucy / wordsworth she dwelt in the untrodden ways,beside the springs of dove...' Transcribes text but with significant errors when compared to wordsworth's original. The...Mary Groom William WordsworthSong: she dwelt among th' untrodden waysUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton gift booksPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton William Shakespeare Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton Walter Scott Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton texts on religionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton historical studiesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton modern novelsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Lucy Lyttelton ... continued reading as avidly as ever after her marriage to Lord Frederick Cavendish, although she seems to have been happy that he should choose the bo...Lord and Lady CavendishCharles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945'Lunch 12.0, & afterwards went on leave, while hands washed up the decks. Had a tremendous blow out at Swiss Cafe, & purchased many items ... Went & read at room at...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1900-1945'Lunched alone at the hotel, reading with indecent hilarity O. Henry's "Gentle Grafter", as good short stories as you want; almost worthy to rank with Maupassant, Kipling...Ronald Storrs O. Henry (pseud)The Gentle GrafterPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lunched at Troyes, reached Bale at 7.30. Hotel Euler. Read Stevenson's "Men and Books" and Miss Warlson's "Horace Chase".' Gertrude Bell Robert Louis StevensonFamiliar Studies of Men and Books Print: Book
1850-1899'Lunched at Troyes, reached Bale at 7.30. Hotel Euler. Read Stevenson's "Men and Books" and Miss Warlson's [sic] "Horace Chase".' Gertrude Bell Constance Fenimore WoolsonHorace ChasePrint: Book
1900-1945'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case against Byron and Mrs. Leigh in the form of a book cal...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Ralph MilbankeAstarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord ByronManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'L[eonard]W[oolf] had undertaken to write a play for the "X" Society, which had recently read Robert Browning's Paracelsus.'The 'X' SocietyRobert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849'M Read Madoc all morning.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyMadoc: a poemPrint: Unknown


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