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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'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Flora Annie SteelIn the Guardianship of GodPrint: Book
1900-1945 ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together. This ...Arnold Bennett Florence BarclayunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just returned from Clarence where I found only a few Mothers, but some very agreeable ladies amongst them. I read them "Barbara T[t]hwaite" by which they were muc...Gertrude Bell Florence BellWill o' the Wisp Print: Book
1900-1945'First I must tell you that I have read, with immense satisfaction, the "Minor Moralist". It is excellent. I think perhaps the best of all is the essay on Manners. In my ...Gertrude Bell Florence BellThe Minor Moralist: Some essays on the art of ever...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the delightful little book and for the far too delightful inscription you put into it. I opened it after breakfast at the vocabulary essay and read that ag...Gertrude Bell Florence Bell?Topics for ConversationPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Florence Bell (and Mrs Herbert Richmond, née Elsa Bell)The Cat and Fiddle Book: Eight dramatised nursery ...Print: Book
1900-1945'[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, "...Hilary Spalding Florence ConverseThe House of PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945'The weekly Evensong [i.e., 22-25 Oct] has been amazing this week, averaging nearly a hundred a night. It’s rather like the last chapter of the "House of Prayer" th...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton Florence ConverseThe House of PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt settle on any save T. Hardy's life just now. Rather to m...Virginia Woolf Florence HardyLife of Thomas HardyPrint: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White Florence MacCunnSir Walter Scott's FriendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read the [italics] Subsidiary Notes [end italics] first. It was so interesting I could not leave it. I finished it at one long morning sitting - hardly stirring betwee...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Florence NightingaleNotes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency,...Print: Book
1900-1945'For years I continued to detest the founder of modern nursing and all that she stood for - a state of mind which persisted until, quite recently, I read her essay "Cassa...Vera Brittain Florence NightingaleCassandraPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Reynolds then read a paper entitled 'Cycling on the Arctic Circle' describing actual experiences of a friend'.Florence Reynolds Florence Reynolds[paper entitled 'Cycling on the Arctic Circle' ]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945' ... at Stanway in 1916 for her sister's twenty-first birthday, Lady Cynthia [Asquith] entertained family and guests after dinner by [mockingly] reading from The Rosary ...Lady Cynthia Asquith Florence L. BarclayThe RosaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Charles Causley Florence L. BarclayFollowing of the Star, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Florence L. BarclayFollowing of the Star, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote to Clara & thanked for flowers & book & gave account of birthday. Finished Wall of Partition.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Florence Louisa BarclayThe Wall of PartitionPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Florence Louisa BarclayThe Broken HaloPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the Latin name of Volusenus, according to the custom of literary men a...James Boswell Florentius Volusenus [pseud.]De Animi TranquillitatePrint: Book
1800-1849'Proselytised by a follower of the mystic Joanna Southcott, he read some of his propaganda but found "Some things that did not Correspond with the bible and also that it ...Joseph Mayett follower of Joanna Southcott  Print: Unknown


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