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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
 
1800-1849'Monday [...] Dec. 12th. [...] read some of Schiller's riddles'.Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerriddlesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday [...] Decbr. 5th. [...] read Evenings at Home with John.' [also records reading this text on 6 December 1825].Claire Clairmont John Aikin and Anna Letitia BarbauldEvenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget OpenedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday [...] July 11th. [...] Read Der ewige Jude by Schubart, the translation of which is in the Notes of Queen Mab.'Claire Clairmont C. F. D. Schubart'Die ewige Jude: Ein lyrische Rhapsodie'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Monday [...] Nov. 7th. [...] sit upon the divan & read Simple Susan with Johnny & M. G.' [also records reading this text in journal entries for 8, 10, 11 November 182...Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'Simple Susan'Print: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 15th February, Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnificent. I would like to give a paper on this aspect of ...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayBarry LindonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 15th October 1928 ?Vie de Tolstoy? (Romain Rolland)'. Gerald Moore Romain RollandVie de TolstoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 22nd March, Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).' Gerald Moore Hilaire BellocThe Eye-WitnessPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Monday, 29th March, A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do. Bought Ira ?Far from the Madding Crowd?. Wrote A...Gerald Moore Edmond HolmesThe Tragedy of EducationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 5th April, I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but nice. ?Under the Greenwood Tree? and ?Blow, blow t...Gerald Moore William ShakespeareAs you Like itPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exci...Gerald Moore Robert HerrickunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exci...Gerald Moore E. Phillips OppenheimThe Great ImpersonationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 8th March, Heavy day. Discussed the famous Parkin speech on Welsh sportsmanship, and the Glamorgan president?s reply. I think that such generalisations as tha...Gerald Moore Rupert BrookePoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday. Lovely day frosty. Received 6 PCs ... Walked a good deal. Read Spanish Gold by Geo A. Birmingham ... Bridge ... Dolly home from S. Africa. Caught with light on a...William Thomas George A. BirminghamSpanish GoldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday. Morn. did little German. Aft. Read 5 ch. Matthew. 5 pm bath. 7-8 whist -2. Bought a bag 8½ Expected to leave Paderborn. Read a Tale of Two Cities (Dick)'William Thomas Gospel of MatthewPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday. Morn. did little German. Aft. Read 5 ch. Matthew. 5 pm bath. 7-8 whist -2. Bought a bag 8½ Expected to leave Paderborn. Read a Tale of Two Cities (Dick)'William Thomas Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday. No letters ... 11 Parade 11.30 Gym. Walked about. Read Handy Andy by Sam Lover. Irish rot. Little French more bridge.'William Thomas Samuel LoverHandy AndyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neg...Wilfred Owen William Butler Yeats Print: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neg...Wilfred Owen Rabindranath Tagore Print: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neg...Wilfred Owen Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book
1850-1899'Montalembert, it appears, kept a journal from his twelfth year to the end of his life, and I am tantalised with the sight of these volumes, which Madame de M. reads to m...Madame de Montalembert Montalembertjournals of MontalembertManuscript: Codex


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