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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'Talking of books — you might ask, when do I talk of anything else — I have read and finished "The Green Knight", which is absolutely top-hole: in fact the only fault I...Clive Staples Lewis Ernest John Brigham KirtlanSir Gawain and the Green Knight: Rendered Literall...Print: Book
1900-1945[alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Kidnapped". Not up to much... Dr came and said I couldn't go down [into lessons] until Monday. Damn. Felt miserable. Read "Trail of the ...Hilary Spalding Ernest Seton ThompsonTrail of the Sandhill Stag, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Mr Justice Raffles".'William Thomas Ernest William HornungMr Justice RafflesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Thief in Night Hornung. Ev Roulette.'William Thomas Ernest William HornungA Thief in the NightPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished Hey Groves' modern methods of treating fractures an excellent book. Started Saville's Clinical Medicine — 7 hrs. reading.'Albert Ruskin Cook Ernest William Hey GrovesOn Modern Methods of Treating FracturesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
Surgical Diagnosis – Martin
Tropical Diseases – Stitt
Abdominal Injuries – Morison & R.
Household ...		Albert Ruskin Cook Ernest William Hey GrovesOn Modern Methods of Treating FracturesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was readi...Ellen Wilkinson and fatherErnst Haeckel Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ernst PlatnerErnst Platners Philosophische Aphorismen nebst einPrint: Book
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the "Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely...Gertrude Bell Ernst Toller?Man and MassesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] September [...] 27th. [...] Read all the morning Das Bild von Houwald with Mr. G[ambs]. It is a charming tragedy in the romantic style and the novelty of th...Claire Clairmont Ernst Christoph von HouwaldDas Bild: Trauerspiel in funf AktenPrint: Book
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Ernst Heinrich Philipp August HaeckelRiddle of the UniversePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ernst Theodor Amadeus HoffmannFantasiestucke in Calloti ManierPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shaved, breakfast - porridge, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Mystery of the Sands" [sic]. Dinner of roast beef, cabbage & potatoes, rice. Slept a little. Head shaved, wo...John Frederick William Dunn Erskine ChildersThe Riddle of the SandsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat. Nil. [i.e., no mail]. Read The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.'William Thomas Erskine ChildersThe Riddle of the SandsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Esaias TegnerDie Frithiofs-SagePrint: Book
1900-1945'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enough for me to see. She had not had enough experience....Ford Madox Ford Esther Julia Ford[a short story]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enough for me to see. She had not had enough experience....Esther Julia Ford Esther Julia Ford[a short story]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library "Women the world over" and took back "Candles in the flame" and "Lighter side of school life["].'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ethel Alec-TweedieWomen the world over: a sketch both light and gay,...Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished Women [the World Over?]. Bed 8.30 ... Naval victory important.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ethel Alec-TweedieWomen the world over: a sketch both light and gay,...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read, wounds dressed. Read "The Way of an Eagle".'John Frederick William Dunn Ethel DellThe Way of an EaglePrint: Book


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