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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'Moore had owned that the Memoirs [of Byron] were of "such a low pot-house description" that [John Murray] could not have published them'Thomas Moore George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philos...Thomas Carlyle Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philos...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold (Canto IV)Print: Book
1900-1945'More enduring [than the chocolates sent by Eden's mother, which were eaten by rats] was a copy of Robert Bridge's The Spirit of Man, sent to me by my cousin Viole...Anthony Eden Robert BridgesThe Spirit of ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'Edward Morgan Forster Frances Burney Print: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'Edward Morgan Forster Tobias Smollett Print: Book
1900-1945'More stimulating was the reading of Somerset Maugham's short novel, "A Christmas Holiday".'Vera Brittain Somerset MaughamA Christmas HolidayPrint: Book
1800-1849'More wonders from the "Mercury" "A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations [...] then the celebrated Mr Irving [.] 211 stage co...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Moreover I have been reading Meredith's letters - undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of English literature -especially the 1st vol.' Arnold Bennett George MeredithLetters vol 1Print: Book
1900-1945'Moreover, her train had arrived one-and-a-half hours before luncheon, so she had gone to the Paddington Hotel and sat in the lounge reading P.G.Wodehouse.'Ethel Smyth Pelham Grenville WodehouseunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Morning it was so hot went into the garden and read. Afternoon Miss Klug began the most beautiful book called "Helen's babies" after lessons she read again tea in the ga...Gertrude Bell John HabbertonHelen's BabiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't be always what one needs.'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verses]Unknown
1850-1899'Morning, note Beza's blasphemous address to Henry IV: "O Dieu, laisse aller tone serviteur en paix, car mes yeux avant de s'eteindre ont vu le liberateur de la France et...John Ruskin GaullieurHistoire de GenevePrint: Book
1850-1899'Morris's Sigurd is a grrrrreat poem; that is so.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Morristranslation of The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and...Print: Book
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands William Tufnell Le Queux[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Edgar Wallace[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Emily BronteWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Ivan Turgenev[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Most of the books I choose from the free library are for the wife. I cast my eye over the books vaguely searching for likely looking binding. If one catches my eye, such... unknownsynopsis of bookPrint: Book


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