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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'At another time he insisted that the gardener should remove all the plants from the tall stage in the glass house, that adjoined the drawing room. Then he had been wont ...Joseph Conrad  Print: Book
1900-1945[Campbell is describing entering a German dugout captured after a successful offensive] 'Their home was very like one of ours, maps and pictures stuck on the walls, sh...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Book
1800-1849'3rd mo. 15th. In looking over the events of today, I believe I suffered loss from reading the light and frivolous contents of a newspaper. May it serve as a caution for ...Edward Foster Brady  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'In a mill town in the late 1840's, a group of girl operatives met at five o'clock in the morning to read Shakespeare for an hour before going to work.'William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945'... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on there free of charge, the library and papers of John ...Cyril Lionel Robert James John Locke Manuscript: Manuscript notebook.
1900-1945'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again. He read me extracts from a book by Mr. Gilbert Franka...Cyril Lionel Robert James Gilbert Frankau Print: Book
1900-1945'Once or twice I left the safety of the trench and went out alone, down the hill towards Sailly-le-Sec ... I told myself that I might obtain some useful information ... B...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Book
1900-1945'Three o'clock. I was trying to read my book, but I did not take in what I was reading. Instead of words on the page, I saw Germans, Germans coming over the crest, lines ...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Book
1900-1945'"Read that," [Major Cecil] said, when he came to where I was standing. It was an envelope, an ordinary envelope, addressed in Cherry's handwriting to the O.C. A Batte...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Orders for the day.
1900-1945‘November 27 I have decided to make this diary my chief personal record of the war ... The chief drawback is – as I have found ever since I joined the press – that writi...Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean  Print: Unknown
1850-1899'My dear Charlie, I’m a rogue and should have written to you months ago; but I have been both busy and worried. As to your paper, no, it won’t do: you ask an opinion, and...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Gray Robertson Unknown
1900-1945'Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive. A few full of promise and real beauty. He oughtn't to publish yet.'Siegfried Sassoon Robert Graves Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced b...Mary Pollard Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced b...Alfred Rawlings Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell Unknown
1900-1945'Called in at the Club in the evening and picked up a book containing various oratorios with the names of the singers famous in different parts written in by some Victori...Edmund Blunden  Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced b...Charles E. Stansfield Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced b...George Burrow Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

Mary Pollard Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

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7....		Victor Alexander Roger Ascham Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading a short 'Etude' of Scherer on Goethe, in which I so heartily agree that I enjoy it.'Emma Darwin Wilhelm Scherer Print: Unknown


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