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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'Owing to his giving me the books, am now reading C by M. Baring. I am surprised to find it as good as it is. But how good is it? Easy to say it is not a great book. But ...Virginia Woolf Maurice BaringCPrint: Book
1900-1945'P.'s roving eye fell upon your letter of today, & read the beginning of the sentence about "Poor old Phyllis & her poems!" Which led to demands to know how it ended. Whi...Phyllis Reid Ford Madox Ford[letter to Stella Bowen]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'P.S. - I have seen no public notice of your book, except the advertisement a fortnight since.'Eleanor Anne Franklin Advertisement for Our Village: Sketches of Rural C...Print: Advertisement
1900-1945'P.S. Have begun the "Professor" and have read as far as the hero's arrival at Brussels. It is shaping very well. I believe you have read it have you not - J'Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontėThe ProfessorPrint: Book
1850-1899'P.S. I also return the voyage diary. It is excellent, & I was very pleased with it.'Arnold Bennett George Sturtvoyage diaryManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Paid Laundress and Daily Mail ... Elsie at ¼ to six. Supper at 7.15. Read + worked. Bed 9.10.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1700-1799'Paine's "Rights of Man, or Answer to Burke" being now lately come out & much talked of, we got it in our society and on Monday the 25th. I began reading it, but was much...John Marsh Thomas PaineRights of ManPrint: Book
1800-1849'Palm Sunday Appropriate readings this week from Mant (?) [sic] &c.'John Cole Richard MantunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marr...John Ridges George Borrow Print: Book
1900-1945'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marr...John Ridges John Ridges[paper on Works of George Borrow]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marr...R. Heelas R. Heelas[paper on Life of George Borrow]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marri...Elizabeth Ann Smith George BorrowBible in Spain, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marri...Miss Marriage George BorrowLavengroPrint: Book
1900-1945'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marri...E.P. Kaye George BorrowLavengroPrint: Book
1900-1945'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marri...Walter Rowntree George BorrowRomany Rye, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marri...Howard Smith George BorrowRomany Rye, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!'John Ruskin [n/a]Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Parcel from Pemb. [Pembrokeshire] War Fund. Worked on tennis court ... Read Old Wives Tale and Anna of Five Towns (Arnold Bennett).' William Thomas Arnold BennettThe Old Wives' TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Parcel from Pemb. [Pembrokeshire] War Fund. Worked on tennis court ... Read Old Wives Tale and Anna of Five Towns (Arnold Bennett).' William Thomas Arnold BennettAnna of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Parcels from home and Bess. Read "Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son" by George Horace Lorimer.'William Thomas George Horace LorimerLetters from a Self Made Merchant to His SonPrint: Book


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