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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'Started to read George Orwell's "Road to Wigan Pier" -Left Book Club choice for March. Arrived at Liverpool St. punctually at 9.30.' George OrwellRoad to Wigan PierPrint: Book
1900-1945'I marvelled that "The Road to Wigan Pier", to me naive, had made such a stir. I could think of nothing in it that was not obvious, but when I said so in the Cole Group i...Ralph Glasser George OrwellRoad to Wigan Pier, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley George OrwellRoad to Wigan Pier, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Even George Orwell, who had dismissed "Seed of Chaos" with contempt the previous year, now expressed deep misgivings in "The Observer" for April 8th.'Vera Brittain George OrwellArticle in "The Observer"Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

[...]		Arnold Joselin George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and LondonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by...Arnold Bennett George PastonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'My reviewing has been mixing me up with literary folk lately. One ?George Paston? (niece of John Addington Symonds) whose 3 books I have consistently belauded wants to ...Arnold Bennett George PastonA Modern Amazon, A Bread and Butter Miss, A Study ...Print: Book
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu...Mary Smith George PayneElements of Mental and Moral SciencePrint: 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 George PeeleOld Wives TalePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to George Pellew, 23 June 1883: 'I found your thin red book [on Jane Austen] on my table when I came in late last night. I read it this morning before I left...Henry James George Pellewdissertation on Jane Austen's novelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Prettyman's "Theology". The Dedication to Pitt is insufferably fulsome...'Thomas Green George PretymanElements of Christian theologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Psalmanazar wrote the Cosmogony, and the History of the Jews after his Conversion; how odd that he shold quote the Formosan Opinions therefore as corroborative of some H...Hester Lynch Thrale George Psalmanazar[articles contributed to the 'Universal History']Print: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf George PuttenhamThe Arte of English PoesiePrint: Book
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1800-1849		"In 1843, W[ordsworth] recalled his research for The Borderers: ' ... having a wish to colour the manners in some degree from local history more than my knowledge enabled...William Wordsworth George RedpathThe Border History of England and ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'The man who gaind the last English verse prize in Oxford has since published two odes which he...Robert Southey George RichardsSongs of the Aboriginal Bards of Britain Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading an old book — Lord Riddell's diary. Mentions Churchill a lot, and one can see his ideas have been maintained over the years.'Vere Hodgson George RiddellLord Riddell's War Diary: 1914-1918Print: Book
1850-1899'George, George, you are detected, and if you do not immediately drink a bottle of Burgundy (to my health and Pepys's) you will certainly be damned.'Robert Louis Stevenson George SaintsburyReview of Familiar Studies in Pall Mall GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Athenaeum was only a confused intelligence in revolt against Saintsbury's exaggerations ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George Saintsbury[review in Pall Mall Gazette]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan George SaintsburyEssays on French NovelistsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sale's "Preliminary Discourse to the Koran" ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone George SalePreliminary discourse to the KoranPrint: Book


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