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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'Rather like celibate life in Paris again. I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .'Arnold Bennett William Charles Macready[diary]Print: Book
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginnin...Edward Morgan Forster Henry Vaughan'Quickness'Print: Book
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginnin...Edward Morgan Forster F. L. Lucas'The Graces'Print: Book
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking at the door, and wondered whether it is more than a s...Edward Morgan Forster Cyril Connolly Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Rawlinson sore leg. Wrote a letter home asking for biscuits &c. Read The Wayfarers by JC Snaith.'William Thomas John Collis SnaithThe WayfarersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel Paterson & (better still) by W.R. Benet under the tit...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Isabel Paterson[review of 'It Was The Nightingale' in] New York H...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel Paterson & (better still) by W.R. Benet under the tit...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen W.R. Benet'Uncle Ford'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Re-read "Laws of Operation".'George Eliot [pseud] Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps)[perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the System...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing sin of all Israel. Jerusalem, the capital, or high p...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1900-1945'Re-read MacDiarmid's "Scot's Unbound" - some fine lyrics; but the "thoct" in the lengthy poems confounds the poetry; why must Grieve so often use his verse as a shop-win...William Soutar Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.]Scots UnboundPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias"John Ruskin Alexandre ` DumasLa Dame aux CaméliasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "3 Sisters". Went down to Oakwood Court to see Mother.'Verena Pennefather May SinclairThree SistersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "A Christmas Carol" to the Babs, and Evie finished it to him.'Verena Pennefather Charles DickensA Christmas CarolPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'.Sydney Smith unknownA Life in the ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "A Tale of Two Cities" to the Babs after tea.'Verena Pennefather Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "A Welsh Witch". Walked to the church to meet Miss Jenner.'Verena Vera Pennefather Allen RaineA Welsh Witch: A Romance of Wild PlacesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "a Welsh Witch". Wrote to Claude, Maysie and Mother.'Verena Vera Pennefather Allen RaineA Welsh Witch: A Romance of Wild PlacesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Abbess of Vlaye" to Babs in the garden after tea.'Verena Pennefather Stanley J. WeymanThe Abbess of VlayePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Alice for Short". Stayed in all day'Verena Vera Pennefather William de MorganAlice for ShortPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia" out of my book on top of the highest.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book


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