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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
 
1900-1945'I've been frightfully lazy today: it's been too hot to do anything. Pater was a gem: he brought my breakfast up about 9.30 and I didn't get up until eleven. I read...Dora Willatt Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Last Days of PompeiiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity.William Ewart Gladstone Edward BurtonTestimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divi...Print: Book
1800-1849[...] Finished Burton [...]William Ewart Gladstone Edward BurtonTestimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divi...Print: Book
1850-1899'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of human experience in them, - the troubles of this lif...Margaret Oliphant Edward CairdSermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] Edward Caird[probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte...Print: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Edward CarpenterTowards DemocracyPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate SexPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ...Eva Slawson Edward CarpenterLove's Coming of AgePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's...Marie Stopes Edward CarpenterLove's Coming of AgePrint: Book
1900-1945'Florence [Barger] has read Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes (1916).'Florence Barger Edward CarpenterMy Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical NotesPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue
Dec 19th 1930
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
Min 1 Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
7 After refr...		Edgar Castle Edward Castle[Contribution to a symposium: the position of the ...Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and after supper, and W. Battler gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, a new book called "The State of England", which promises well and is worth reading; an...Elizabeth Pepys Edward ChamberlayneAngliae Notitia; or The present state of England: ...Print: Book
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford Edward CockerCocker's Arithmetic, being a Plain and Easy Method...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes annotations (including corrections and updatings to text and notes) by Francis Hargrave in copy of his own edition of Edward Coke's Commentary upon Li...Francis Hargrave Edward CokeThe First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of En...Print: Book
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Edward CookThe Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1.Print: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II
Kingsley. Vol I.
[indecipherable]
Pennell 10/6 Edit. asked for.
The land of open doors.
B...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Edward CookThe Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2.Print: Book
1800-1849'We do not much like Mr Cooper's new Sermons; they are fuller of Regeneration & Conversion than ever - with the addition of his zeal in the cause of the Bible Society.'Jane Austen Edward CooperTwo Sermons Preached at WolverhamptonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There is a pamphlet on Bullion by Mr Copplestone of Oxford...Sydney Smith Edward Copleston[Review in Edinburgh Review of Ricardo on Currency...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are...George Crabbe Edward CoplestonInquiry into the Doctrines of Necessity & Predesti...Print: Book
1850-1899'I first heard of Barr?s in an article by Edward Delille in the Fortnightly.' Arnold Bennett Edward Delille[article on Maurice Barres]Print: Serial / periodical


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