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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'Sunday 12th September ?Jurgen? (James Branch Cabell)'. Gerald Moore James Branch CabellJurgenPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P...Harry McShane JusticePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to readings from the plays of Galsworthy. The plays thus dealt with were: Justice. A bit o' Love. Strife.'Members of XII Book ClubJohn GalsworthyJusticePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William SedgwickJustice upon the Armie RemonstrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—"Exton Manor" by Archibald Marshall and "Justice" by Galsworthy, which I have...Douglas Herbert Bell John GalsworthyJustice: A Tragedy in Four ActsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday August 5th. [...] Begin Cabale und Liebe [sic] of Schiller.' [also records reading this text on 6, 10, 11, 12 ('Sit at home all day & read Cabale und Liebe [...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerKabale und LiebePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'ArgensKabbalistische BriefePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried HerderKalligonePrint: Book
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havellock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventuall...Margaret Powell Kama SutraPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read DH Lawrence's "Kangaroo". How I hated (in italics) it! Altho I think the Chapter about the War is well written, but it is so full of Spite, bitterness &...Ottoline Morrell David Herbert LawrenceKangarooPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell on the model for the domineering husband Colonel Forbes, in her novel [italics]Katherine Ashton[end italics]: 'Colonel Forbes has not in appea...Elizabeth Missing SewellKatherine AshtonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the character is in the main true was shown to me strang...anon. Elizabeth Missing SewellKatherine AshtonPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherine Christian (1941).'Hugh Walpole Walter ScottKatherine ChristianPrint: 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...Walter BesantKatherine ReginaPrint: Book
1900-1945

'"This is my beloved Prus," Konrad [sic] pointed at a volume of "Emancypantski". I can read it over and over again." When I laid my hand on "Kazimierz Wielki", he sai...

Joseph Conrad Stanisław Wyspiański Kazimierz WielkiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading Murray's "Keats and Shakespeare" again. This work to me was, and still is, a critical masterpiece: I can think of no other study - of this nature - carr...William Soutar John Middleton MurrayKeats and ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Woo...Winifred Agnes Moore Rose MacauleyKeeping Up AppearancesPrint: Book
1700-1799From his diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox, James and David Herriots and me twice a week, M...John Hastie [n/a]Kelso MailPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox [William Knox, schoolmaster, Edro...William Knox [n/a]Kelso MailPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox [William Knox, schoolmaster, Edro...James Herriot [n/a]Kelso MailPrint: Newspaper


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