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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12-15 November 1793: 'I have been reading Courtney Melmoths Liberal Opinions to-day. I know not if you have ever read the boo...Robert Southey Courtney Melmoth [pseud.]Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providenc...Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolCoventry Patmore Print: Book
1800-1849'I now thank you very much for your able inauguration essay on Architecture and live in expectation of its successors.'Alfred Tennyson Coventry PatmoreThe aesthetics of gothic architecturePrint: Book
1850-1899[Aubrey De Vere writes] 'In 1854 I went [...] to Farringford, where the poet [Tennyson] then made abode with his wife and two children [...] in the afternoon we sometimes...Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De VereCoventry PatmoreThe Angel in the HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Currer Bell [pseud.]Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton BellPrint: Book
1850-1899'Collingwood's poem, read last night, not without its meaning.'John Ruskin Cuthbert Collingwood[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shaw's Monody' 'I who the tedious absence of a day /...' [transcribes poem from line 11]B.A.T. Herbert Cuthbert ShawMonody to the Memory of a Young Lady Who Died in CUnknown
1900-1945'Sun. read "Virginia of the Rhodesians" by Cynthia Stockley. Miserable day.'William Thomas Cynthia StockleyVirginia of the RhodesiansPrint: Book
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking at the door, and wondered whether it is more than a s...Edward Morgan Forster Cyril Connolly Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespear...Lawrence Durrell Cyril Tourneur[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Just read the life of Grand Duke Cyril. He was in the flagship at Port Arthur sunk by the Japs years ago. He seems to have lived well until the Revolution. But no on...Vere Hodgson Cyril VladimirovichMy Life in Russia's Service, Then and NowPrint: Book
1900-1945'No parcel aft. French. Supposed to play Rugger ... Ev bridge. Won. Read Reins of Chance by C Ranger Gull.'William Thomas Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger GullThe Reins of ChancePrint: Book
1700-1799'I read The Government of the Country by D. O'Bryan. N.B. a rebellious book.'Frances Hamilton D O'BryanThe Government of the CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest pieces of literature I remember reading and the idea stri...D H LawrenceLady Chatterley's LoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest pieces of literature I remember reading and the idea stri...D H LawrenceThe Man Who DiedPrint: Book
1900-1945'His novels rather date, but his essays are vivid and stimulating. Red Trousers comes to the mind as being real hot stuff.' D H LawrenceRed TrousersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dear Lady London,the Lawrence letters & Hogarth Living Poets have arrived......I am not half-way thro' it yet, as it takes turn with Shakespeare and Gibbon, & catching t...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell D H LawrenceLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook D'Arcy PowerWounds in War, Their Treatment and ResultsPrint: Book
1800-1849'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them ... I have not quite finished the anec...Dorothy Wordsworth D. ThiebaultAnecdotes of Frederick IIPrint: Book
1900-1945'... reading "Sons and Lovers", [W. H. Hudson] judged it "a very good book indeed except in that portion where he relapses into the old sty -- the neck-sucking and wall...William Henry Hudson D. H. LawrenceSons and LoversPrint: Book


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