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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
 
1850-1899'Reading "Le Roi des Montagnes" by Ed About' Albert Battiscombe About EdmondLe roi des MontagnesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownLos Judios en EspanaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas Percy (ed.)Reliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownIsisPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Reading "Ordeal of War"—Oliver most interesting & instructive, also Report of committee on Belgian atrocities[.] Dined with Richmond at the Club.'Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar Frederick Scott OliverOrdeal by BattlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading "Ordeal of War"—Oliver most interesting & instructive, also Report of committee on Belgian atrocities[.] Dined with Richmond at the Club.'Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar [n/a] [n/a]Official Book of the German Atrocities Told by Vic...Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading "The Jew of Malta", which in spite of critics is the most interesting of the plays I've read.'Hilary Spalding Christopher MarloweJew of Malta, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by be...Antonia White Field[book on child psychology]Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by be...Antonia White Humphrey JenningsLittle town in FrancePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, indeed, a type-reviewer - an authentic specimen-page o...John Mitchel Thomas Babington MacaulayEssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'.George Eliot [pseud.] Salomon MunkMelanges de Philosophie Juive et ArabePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading a biography of Churchill - did not know much about his career, but going back into the past one can see how it has all grown and how very far-sighted a man he ...Vere Hodgson Carl Eric Bechofer RobertsWinston Churchill: Being an Account of the Life of...Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading a book by Alexr Dumas fils called "Antonine", a stupid book in my opinion.'Albert Battiscombe Alexandre DumasAntoninePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading a book by Oliver Baldwin. A lot of it is the sentimentalism of a few years back, which fell to pieces when the Hun was at our Back and Front Door. He seems at...Vere Hodgson Oliver BaldwinThe Questing Beast: An AutobiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading a book on Pneumatics and been thinking of making an Anemometer of my own invention do not know if it would succeed, and I have great doubts of my ever attempting...Albert Battiscombe [unknown][book on pneumatics]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Philip Wentworth BuckhamTheatre of the GreeksPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Julius Leopold KleinGeschichte des DramasPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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1900-1945		'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full stop [on coming to episode unfit for children] ... s...Elizabeth Sewell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading aloud meant group recitation, which Dylan hated. Chanting a poem in unison one afternoon, he put his hands over his ears and burst out, 'I can't stand it, I can'...Dylan Thomas William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book


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