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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'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd George (Amantine Lucille Aurore) Sand (Dupin) Print: Book
1700-1799Read 4 acts of 'The Rehearsall'. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile George (Duke of Buckingham) VilliersThe RehearsalPrint: Book
1700-1799Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile George (Duke of Buckingham) VilliersThe RehearsalPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E...		Charles E. Stansfield George A. BirminghamSpanish GoldPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E...		Charles E. Stansfield George A. BirminghamSpanish GoldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday. Lovely day frosty. Received 6 PCs ... Walked a good deal. Read Spanish Gold by Geo A. Birmingham ... Bridge ... Dolly home from S. Africa. Caught with light on a...William Thomas George A. BirminghamSpanish GoldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thurs. Letter from Bess. Sent PC home. Read "Bad Times" Ireland by George A. Birmingham. Game of rounders.'William Thomas George A. BirminghamThe Bad TimesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Since leaving Oxford I have had quite a little opportunity for reading and have read all kinds of things, some of the better books being: Conan Doyle's "Micah Clar...Roderick Ward Maclennan George A. Birmingham[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones George A. Birmingham (pseud.)The Inviolable SanctuaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray read Agar Ellis's ' Iron Mask;' not so much for that question [that of old age], though it is not devoid of curiosity, as to remark the horrible atrocities perpetra...Sydney Smith George Agar-Ellis, Lord DoverThe true history of the state prisoner, Commonly c...Print: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent George Alfred Henty[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth...Percy Wall George Alfred Henty[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt George Alfred Henty Print: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams George Alfred Henty Print: Book
1900-1945'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young...Lawrence Durrell George Alfred Henty[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones George Alfred HentyIn the Reign of TerrorPrint: Book
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart George Anne BellamyMemoirs of George Anne BellamyPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are very much charmed with Lord G. Paget's account of the Crimean War, a subject I dislike so much that I am surprised to like it so much...'Emma Darwin George Augustus Frederick, Lord PagetThe Light Cavalry Brigade in the CrimeaPrint: Book
1850-1899"I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father."Harriet Stephen George Barnett SmithThe Works of ThackerayPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father."Ann Thackeray George Barnett SmithThe Works of ThackerayPrint: Serial / periodical


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