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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[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLos cabellos de AbsalonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLos dos amantes del cieloPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownLos Judios en EspanaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Livy - Persiles & Sigismunda'Mary Shelley Miguel de CervantesLos rabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia sep...Print: Book
1900-1945'When Wilfrid Blunt ... reread "Loss and Gain" he was struck how "Newman's mind ... seems never to have faced the real issues of belief and unbelief, those which have to ...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt John Henry NewmanLoss and GainPrint: Book
1900-1945'It appealed to me - I like books about the country and farms and country life in general. (Lost Fields: McLaverty)'Michael McLavertyLost FieldsPrint: Book
1900-1945'He read "The Lost Girl" at the end of November just when he was himself most deeply engaged in trivia, and immediately recognizes it as "the work of a genius", Lawrence ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceLost Girl, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read the latter. ["The Lost Girl".] It is very remarkable indeed, and would be great if it had a real theme and some construction. This man is a genius, and ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceLost Girl, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by t...Oscar Wilde Honore de BalzacLost IllusionsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Rafael SabatiniLost King, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Ex-Detective Sergeant B. LeesonLost London. The Memoirs of an East End DetectivePrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't know whether I shall lose your good opinion forever if I tell you a true thing; but I had rather you knew the worst: - that I am intensely enjoying, this day or ...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer-LyttonLost Tales of Miletus, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Find no desire to write this book ['The Lost Traveller'] since Tom read it. It produced a effect on him at first but that seemed to wear off.'Tom Hopkinson Antonia WhiteLost Traveller, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook unknown unknownLost Tribes, ThePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before... [n/a]Lot o' FunPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. He had told Disraeli that the "silly sooth" of love w...Alfred Tennyson Benjamin DisraeliLothairPrint: Book
1850-1899'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars of the war so far as it has proceeded. Read also an...John Buckley Castieau Benjamin DisraeliLothairPrint: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding Alfred, Lord TennysonLotos Eaters, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provincial Lady in America" in evening.'Hilary Spalding Enid BagnoldLottie DundassPrint: Book
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Fa...Mary Russell Mitford Casimir DelavigneLouis XIPrint: Book


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