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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
 
1850-189919 May 1854: 'My birthday [...] No cause of congratulations to me, alas, to have completed another year, when more than ever I should wish to be as young as I feel ......Lady Charlotte Guest Edward Bulwer-LyttonMy NovelPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Stopped at home all the evening really fascinated with Bulwer's "My Novel", got in fact so excited with the story that I became unable quietly to read on regularly, but ...John Buckley Castieau Edward Bulwer LyttonMy NovelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Came home read a little of my Novel smoked a Cigar and went quietly to bed.'John Buckley Castieau Edward Bulwer LyttonMy NovelPrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by himself, with the letter from Dr. Adam Smith subjoined ...James Boswell David HumeMy Own LifePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		 'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show that by this time there was a tremendous demand o...Hannah Mitchell Emmeline PankhurstMy Own StoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'... I took up a volume with the uncompromising title My Past by a Countess Marie Larisch... T. S. Eliot was certainly one who read it, and before he wrote The Waste Land...T. S. Eliot Marie LarischMy PastPrint: Book
1900-1945'9. Charles Stansfield then read his paper on Charles Lamb. He gave us a clear picture of Lamb in his family relationships, beginning with a delightful study of Lamb’s ...Victor Alexander Charles LambMy RelationsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on one of her early publications: 'A most excellent young servant of ours [...] went out to Madeira with my brother and his family [...] Her history was...Martineau family servant, and husbandHarriet MartineauMy Servant RachelPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question from interviewer] '- who, them? I enjoy travel books, ... unknownMy Son AbsalomPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...] 		Arnold Joselin Frances BurneyMy Streatham VisitPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
    Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

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6. Celia Burrow read Th...		Howard Smith Rudyard KiplingMy Sunday at Home, from The Day’s WorkUnknown
1800-1849'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriMyrrhaPrint: Book
1850-1899'But happening to mention one day to my Editor that I thought "Occult" stories would go down well just now, & that I had a lot of material for them in hand I was a little...Arnold Bennett 'Par Un Initie'Mysteres des Sciences OccultesPrint: Book
1800-1849'And besides she [Mrs Cliffe] wd. lend me the first two vols of the mysteries of Udolpho before she had finished them herself ? a kind of generosity which quite dazzled m...Elizabeth Barrett Ann RadcliffeMysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett Ann RadcliffeMysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Ann RadcliffeMysteries of Udolpho, The
1900-1945'I have read your delightful and penetrating (I use the word deliberately) "[Mysterious] Japan". I have the book. I was looking into it again only the other day. Pray do ...Joseph Conrad Julian Street Mysterious JapanPrint: 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 Harry S. KellerMysterious Mr I, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday. Finished Hover Heath. Started Mystery of Orcival by [Thomas has left a blank here, evidently meaning to fill in the author information later]. 4-6 cards. William Thomas Emile GaboriauMystery of OrcivalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday. Finished Orcival. Read "Vigil" by Harold Begbie. 4-5 Service. Spoilt all by laughing. Sorry for parson.'William Thomas Emile GaboriauMystery of OrcivalPrint: Book


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