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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'The book has arrived too. It was very kind of you to think of sending it to me. As everything that Professor [William] James ever wrote it's most suggestive and interest...Joseph Conrad William JamesMemories and StudiesPrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the late times - which I will buy; it seems well writ.'Samuel Pepys David LloydMemories of the lives ... of those noble ... perso...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Ludlow's memoirs'Mary Shelley E. LudlowMemors of E. Ludlow Esq., Lieutenant-General of th...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Ludlow's Memoirs'Mary Shelley E. LudlowMemors of E. Ludlow Esq., Lieutenant-General of th...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the las...		Francis E. Pollard William BlakeMemory, hither comeUnknown
'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the las...		Francis E. Pollard William BlakeMemory, hither comeUnknown
1900-1945'I have now read—but indeed I did a week or so ago—"Men Adrift" with a great deal of pleasure —pleasure because it was fun reading it and being able to think that you ha...Ford Madox Ford Anthony BertramMen AdriftPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Paul de KruifMen Against DeathPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'.Sydney Smith Thomas HamiltonMen and Manners in AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945 I am returning your Memoirs. Technically they have practically no faults, except those of the typist. A few slips here and there. And also one or two places where I t...Arnold Bennett William RothensteinMen and MemoirsManuscript: typescript
1900-1945'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Rothenstein's 'Men and Memories in typescript, with many...Arnold Bennett William RothensteinMen and MemoriesManuscript: typescript
1850-1899Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in the A...John Ruskin Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Paris was spent with Mr and Mrs Browning, who send you...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Unfortunately, I introduced the subject of Men must Weep by Beverley Nichols. I always forget Mabel is an unrepentant Pacifist. Even now she will not admit that their ...Vere Hodgson Beverley NicholsMen Do Not WeepPrint: Book
1900-1945.. . . I have no prejudice against the young, rather the reverse, and yet I am looking in vain for a really good novel by that generation, and 'Men Like Gods', with all i...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMen Like GodsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your kind present was most welcome [Mary then writes at length about her bad health] I have read a great deal of your volumes with great pleasure recognizing old friends...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntMen, Women, and books: a selection of Sketches, Es...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
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B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Sapper (pseud.) Men, Women, and GunsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Galant le plus Pedant, et le Pedant le plus galant qu'on...Hester Lynch Thrale Gilles MenageMenagianaPrint: Book
'I was reading today where Menage tells a story of a notable fellow in his native town Angers, who was such a bustler that they called him sport Monsieur Tracas.' Hester Lynch Thrale Gilles MenageMenagianaPrint: Book


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