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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
 
1900-1945'11.30 service. Rather depressed. Ev Bridge Won. Read the Wayfarers & the Country of the Blind by HG Wells.'William Thomas Herbert George WellsThe Country of the BlindPrint: Book
1900-1945'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this morning?s Liverpool Post. I am amazed to note how h...Gerald Moore J.H. ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this morning?s Liverpool Post. I am amazed to note how h...Gerald Moore Liverpool PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'12 pm A new English submarine came in. By morning papers the French had won a great victory, Belgium was still holding out, while we had seized German West Africa....Leslie Richard Romer [n/a] [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'12 verse. 4th chap: Paul to Timothy; this does strike my mind deeply; Let no man despite thy youth but be thou an example to the believers in word in conversation in cha...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'12th January 1929. During the afternoon I read Bordeaux?s ?Robe de laine?, but not with much enjoyment. I do not care for Bordeaux though I do not know why.' Gerald Moore Henry BordeauxRobe de LainePrint: Book
1900-1945'12th March 1929 Wrote to mother; read my week?s papers and extracted cuttings.' Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'13th February 1929 I note from ?Excelsior? that the ?Kings? or their representatives, the princes and princesses allied to the French Royal house have arrived at the...Gerald Moore ExcelsiorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'13th January, Thursday. ?John Inglesant? ( J.H.Shorthouse). I am re-reading this, not only because it is one of the most wonderful books I have come across, but becaus...Gerald Moore J.H. ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'14th March 1929 ?They have used God Himself to cheer us! They have clothed him in lies and calumny to kill our souls?. (Gorki ? ?La M?re?) Just what have our Woo...Gerald Moore Maxime GorkiLa M?rePrint: Book
1900-1945'14th March 1929. I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, and talked of ?Wander-thirst?, of Stevenson, of garden...Gerald Moore Walt WhitmanSong of the Open RoadPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th September 1928. Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and somehow weaker than ?La Terre?, but also one of the Rougon...Gerald Moore Emile ZolaUne Page d'AmourPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore BrooksunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Oliver Wendell HolmesunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Artemus WardunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Charles DickensSketches by BozPrint: Book
1900-1945'16th September 1928 I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to acquire the habit of taking notes when reading a boo...Gerald Moore Cecil ChestertonHistory of the United StatesPrint: Book
1900-1945'16th February 1929. ?Appreciation of music? (Pollitt)' Gerald Moore Arthur W. PollittThe Enjoyment of MusicPrint: Book


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