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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
 
1850-1899'Our Times of today - well of yesterday - well, tomorrow it will be of some day in dream land, for I am past power of counting - Our Times of today has taken away my br...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Our Village'Sarah Good Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Our wedding day twenty nine years since we married! My texts for the morning are applicable: "Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more ex...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Corinthians)Print: Book
1900-1945'Out in motor with Miss Kitching who gave me picture testament and Observer. Read Greek Test. with Eva[.] Finished Rev. 9.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook The ObserverPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Out in motor with Miss Kitching who gave me picture testament and Observer. Read Greek Test. with Eva[.] Finished Rev. 9.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 9Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Out of a considerable quantity of garbage which I have allowed myself, at different intervals, to devour, I have only to mention Crabbes Poems as worthy of being read. I...Thomas Carlyle George CrabePoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrive...Edwin Muir [unknown][story]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrive...Edwin Muir Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Out round waggon lines to fix new places to park amm. waggons and then round dump in morning. In after luncheon—Gibbs out. Read Morley's Robespierre—those times n...Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory John Morley'Robespierre: An Essay'Print: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'Out training signallers and observers. The former very efficient, the latter the very reverse. We are to move on the 21st. Heard that my school (Hillhead H.S.) are sendi...Robert Lindsay Mackay Gene Stratton-PorterMichael O'Halloran: A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Out with May. She left me in Reading Room when she went about housemaid — read daily graphic[.] Took out "Through Central Africa from East to West". Very gratifying acco...Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Out with May. She left me in Reading Room when she went about housemaid — read daily graphic[.] Took out "Through Central Africa from East to West". Very gratifying acco...Harriet Bickersteth Cook Cherry KeartonThrough Central Africa from East to WestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Over the New Year [1922] [...] [Charlotte Mew] went down to Cambridge and, as a particular treat, Sydney [Cockerell, Mew's friend, and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum...Charlotte Mew BrontelettersManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Owen met H.G. Wells in November, one of the leading writers about the war and its politics, an advocate of internationalism, efficiency, the defeat of militarism by mili...Wilfred Owen Herbert George Wells Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that he would kill and probably be killed, he took volume...Wilfred Owen Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and BalladsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that he would kill and probably be killed, he took volume...Wilfred Owen Percy Bysshe Shelley[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen [texts on science / religion debate]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen [a Christian response to Darwinism]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen John KeatsLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen William Michael RossettiLife of John KeatsPrint: Book


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