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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'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow read a short paper of H.M. Wallis on some points in ...Charles Evans Charles Evans[paper on Hudson's "Green Mansions"]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume; a brief summary of notes on the front flyleaf.Vernon Lee Charles F?rSensations et Mouvement: ?tudes exp?rimentale de p...Print: Book
1900-1945 ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together. This ...Arnold Bennett Charles GarviceunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Gildon's "Essay", prefixed to Shakespear's poems, in which he largely discuses Dramatic Poetry...'Thomas Green Charles Gildon"An Essay" in Works of ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) C...Donald William Alers Hankey Charles GorePrayer and the Lord's PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit fo...Virginia Woolf Charles GrevilleMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'we have been much pleased with it… it is clear, well put together, skillfully developed, & the argument for a complete change of ecclesiastical policy comes out all but ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Charles GrevillePast and Present Policy of England Towards IslandPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew w...James Hogg Charles HowardHistorical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard FamilyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew w...James Hogg Charles HowardHistorical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Charles Hugo?German Grammar SimplifiedPrint: Book
1850-1899'A thousand thanks for Johnson who is a brick.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles JohnsonA General History of the Robberies and Murders of ...Print: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...Patricia Beer Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...Patricia Beer Charles KingsleyThe Water BabiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
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
1850-1899'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'.George Eliot [pseud.] Charles KingsleyThe Greek HeroesPrint: 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'Friday 10th September Today my friend Pat bought Kingsley?s ?Heroes? for Monica. I am reading it myself and then it goes away, to be out on her shelf, which I am pl...Gerald Moore Charles KingsleyThe HeroesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 11th October ?Westward Ho!? (Charles Kingsley)'.Gerald Moore Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison libra...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles Kingsley[unknown]Print: Book



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