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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
 
1900-1945When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceThe Virgin and the GypsyPrint: Book
1900-1945When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceThe Virgin and the GypsyPrint: Book
1900-1945When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceThe Woman who Rode AwayPrint: Book
1900-1945When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceThe RainbowPrint: Book
1900-1945‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney D.H. (David Herbert) LawrenceThe White PeacockPrint: Book
1900-1945It was after our second family holiday in the West Highlands of Scotland, when I was thirteen, that someone recommended that we should all read 'The Flight of the Heron' ...Patricia Beer D.K. BrosterThe Flight of the HeronPrint: Book
1900-1945My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...Harriet Beer D.K. BrosterThe Flight of the HeronPrint: Book
1900-1945My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...Harriet Beer D.K. BrosterThe Gleam in the NorthPrint: Book
1900-1945My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...Harriet Beer D.K. BrosterThe Dark MilePrint: Book
1900-1945My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...Patricia Beer D.K. BrosterThe Dark MilePrint: Book
1900-1945My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...Patricia Beer D.K. BrosterThe Gleam in the NorthPrint: Book
1900-1945Sheila read 'The Flight of the Heron' too, but was less impressed. I think she realised how I felt; she once teased me about it.Sheila Beer D.K. BrosterThe Flight of the HeronPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...Hilary Spalding D.K. Broster[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near here "[italics] D.V. Thomas [end italics], Purveyor of...Robert Louis Stevenson D.V. ThomasadvertisementUnknown
1900-1945'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1...Winifred Agnes Moore D.W. BroganThe Development of Modern FrancePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Barrington's "Observations on the Ancient Statutes"; a well conceived and elaborate work...'Thomas Green Daines BarringtonObservations on the Ancient StatutesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Daines Barrington's curious "Observations on the Notes of Birds"...'Thomas Green Daines BarringtonThe history of singing birdsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Talking of birds, I mentioned Mr. Daines Barrington's ingenions Essay against the received notion of their migration'.James Boswell Daines Barrington[Essay on bird migration]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent "Observations on the Statutes", Johnson waited on that worthy and learned gentleman; and, having ...Samuel Johnson Daines BarringtonObservations on the Statutes, chiefly the more anc...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel SandfordThe Remains of the Late Right Reverend Daniel Sand...Print: Book



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