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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
 
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we tele...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespeareKing Lear, Cymbeline, Troilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Dear Mr Lane, I must apologise for not returning 'King Noanett'. But I have been so awfully busy lately that I have not had time to finish it. I propose to take it in...Arnold Bennett Frederic Jessup StimsonKing Noanett:A Story of Old Virginia and the Massa...Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans ...Violet Wallis Rabindranath TagoreKing of the Dark ChamberPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's "King of the Golden River", and I most certainly read that. It is, in...Norman Nicholson John RuskinKing of the Golden RiverPrint: Book
1900-1945'2nd February, Wednesday. I have been reading Zangwills, ?King of the Schnorres? and some other yarns of his. He is a most ingenious, and a most humorous writer. He ...Gerald Moore Israel ZangwillKing of the SchnorresPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have made myself so ill with a story of Poe?s − ?King Pest?, by name. I did not sleep last night and I have scarcely been able to eat today.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan PoeKing Pest: A Tale Containing An Allegory.Print: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones William ShakespeareKing Richard IIPrint: Book
1900-1945'Worked rather intermittantly [sic] as was dying to read the end of "King's Solomon's Mines" [sic]. However, when this was done, I settled down OK.'Hilary Spalding H Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon and read half of 'She' ... It isn't nice that anything...Henry James H. Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Babs better kept him quiet in bed all day & read King Solomon's Mines to him & Dick.'Verena Pennefather Henry Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Kept Dick in bed all day. Read "King Solomon's Mines" to him & worked with Tub at the Dutch garden.'Verena Pennefather Henry Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading "King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse", which is really glorious.'Hilary Spalding Sister BlackKing's Nurse, Beggar's NursePrint: Book
1900-1945'I went to a party given by Mr Baldwin [Prime Minister] to the junior Ministers at No. 10. We all sat round the Cabinet Table and old S.B. read out the King's Speech.'Harold Nicolson King's SpeechUnknown
1600-1699'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church settled, the old women had like to have killed the ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Kingdom IntelligencePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.

1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.

[...] 		Kenneth F. Nicholson G. K. ChestertonKing’s Cross StationUnknown
1900-1945Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munificence here on returning [from tour of USA] [...] to...Henry James H. G. WellsKippsPrint: Book
1900-1945'When, in my schooldays, I read H.G. Wells's "Kipps", I recognised it as in some ways a portrait of my father.'Norman Nicholson H.G. WellsKippsPrint: Book
1900-1945'After the examination, when we were expected to feel free as hares, we all flopped with reaction. There seemed just nothing that we wanted to do. There were no lessons, ...Norman Nicholson H.G. WellsKippsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The only real seizable fault that I can find in Kipps is the engagement to Helen, which entirely failed to convince me. . . . After agreeing with myself that I read th...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsKippsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Church parade over, the day was before us for what we liked ... Jack Hinchcliffe would come across and sit outside the tent chatting and reading the paper before d...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Herbert George WellsKippsPrint: Book


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