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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'Received a parcel of four books from ? The Farringdons by Ellen Thornycroft Fowler Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren Tommy & Co by Jerome K Jerome Donovan by ...William Thomas Alfred OllivantOwd BobPrint: Book
1900-1945'I start making star charts and revising my geographical knowledge generally with the aid of a very good atlas - the Oxford Advanced - borrowed from Bayley'Thomas Kitching [unknown]Oxford Advanced AtlasPrint: Book
1900-1945'No change, every bit as bad as yesterday, nothing but rain and mist ... I wrote the rest of the morning in my tent, and in the afternoon continued reading Wellingt...Robert Dunlop Smith Arthur Quiller-CouchOxford Book of English VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the evenings we have cosy suppers in the drawing-room, with little tables in front of the fire. Sometimes we work, sometimes read and talk. The other night Mrs....Robert Dunlop Smith Arthur Quiller-CouchOxford Book of English VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which she read and re-read with absorbed delight, from Hak...Rose Macaulay n/aOxford English DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the book. Reading it gave me very great pleasure.'Joseph Conrad Jean FayardOxford et Margaret Print: Book
1600-1699'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote by Williamson.'Samuel Pepys Sir Joseph WilliamsonOxford GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Dear Little Crow, I duly received your Munich Letter, and your Proofsheet Package, on two successive Wednesdays; and had reason to approve your activity and sagacity in ...Thomas Carlyle Jean CarlylePackage of Proofsheets Manuscript: Proofsheets
1850-1899'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R. Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of "Shorter Poems" than...Joseph Conrad Humphry JamesPaddy's Woman and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (October 1821): '"Paestum" was in the "Times" to-day. I have cut it out for Berry, who wished to see ...Harriet Countess Granville George HowardPaestumPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Andre GidePages de Journal, 1929-1932Print: Book
1900-1945'During these days he was reading two books with enjoyment: Lionel Trilling's Matthew Arnold and Werner Jaeger's Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture, which had just arri...John Buchan Werner JaegerPaideia: The Ideals of Greek CulturePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & sugge...Virginia Woolf Gerald HeardPain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and...Print: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusPalac i ruderaPrint: Book
1900-1945'A meeting of the Club & a large number of guests met at Manor House Earley [?] on the kind invitation of Mr & Mrs Heelas on July 6 1908 to witness a []performance crosse...members of XII Book Club and friendsW.S. GilbertPalace of TruthPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Paul Friedrich RichterPalingenesien von Jean PaulPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wm brought me Bernard Palissy, but it so happened I had not a moment of time for reading except one day, when I got very interested in four or 5 chapters, & then the boo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell H. MorleyPalissy the PotterPrint: Book
1850-1899"I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even see a paper expect the Pall Mall Gazette wh. I read...Leslie Stephen Pall Mall GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [italics] are [end italics] opened; but not considered o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Was favoured this morning by Post with an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette on the manner in which the punishment of "Hanging" was carried out. The writer from English ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper


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