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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'PBS reads Diogenes Laertius.'Perct Bysshe Shelley Diogenes LaertiusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day. .' ...Claire Clairmont Diogenes LaertiusLife of XenophonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. Nil. Read A Trap to Catch a Dream.'William Thomas Dion Clayton CalthropA Trap to Catch a DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily w...Antonia White Djuna BarnesNightwoodPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished the "Birth Stories" and began "La Mort des D....." which seems excellent.' Gertrude Bell Dmitry Sergyeevich Merezhkovsky?La Mort des Dieux: Le roman de Julien l'Apostat Print: Book
1900-1945'Jolted back to Nyaungu and got in soon after tea. Had tea, read and finished La Mort des Dieux and wrote to Uncle George.' Gertrude Bell Dmitry Sergyeevich MerezhkovskyLa Mort des Dieux: Le roman de Julien l'ApostatPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rumours that Italy have declared war. Read Tropical Tales by "Dolf Wyllard". Ev Roulette.'William Thomas Dolf WyllardeTropical Tales and OthersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading The Career of Beauty Darling by Dolf Wyllarde.'William Thomas Dolf WyllardeThe Career of Beauty DarlingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat. Read Play You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw & Odd Things by Dolf Wyllarde. Ev Badminton with Bolton.' William Thomas Dolf WyllardeThingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Curiously enough I arrived at this result by the aid of an R. C. book, called "The Spiritual Combat". The motto of many of the chapters might be written: "Attack all y...Donald William Alers Hankey Dom Lorenzo ScupoliThe Spiritual CombatPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Domenico ComparettiVergileo nel Medio EvoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...Samuel Johnson Dominique Bouhours[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conceit original; but it is not - There is an old Greek E...Hester Lynch Thrale Dominique BouhoursLa manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'espr...Print: Book
1700-1799'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa Who we know - held Montagne and read- While Mrs Susan ...Hester Lynch Thrale Dominique BouhoursLa maniere de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'espr...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday May 27th. [...] Read Congres de Vienne de M. Pradt.' [also records 'Read Congres de Vienne' on 28 May 1821, and 'Finish Congres de Vienne' on 4 June]. Claire Clairmont Dominque Dufour de PradtDu Congres de ViennePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Don ByrneIsland of Youth, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those...Dorothy Wordsworth Don Pedro CevallosExposition of the Arts and Machinations which led ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read "Letters of People in Love". Quite good.'Hilary Spalding Donagh McDonaghLetters of People in LovePrint: Book
1700-1799'Brought Donald Campbell's "Journey Over Land to India" [from the Library]. We had a very high character given of it & the little I have read has not disapointed us.'Joseph Hunter Donald CampbellA Journey Over Land to IndiaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I finished D. Campbell's "Journey over land to India". It is divided into three parts ... the story of Mr [Alli?] who was shipwrecked and imprisoned with him is very aff...Joseph Hunter Donald CampbellA Journey Over Land to IndiaPrint: Book


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