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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'Spent half an hour reading Flecker - he's wonderful'.Hilary Spalding James Elroy Flecker[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provincial Lady in America" in evening.'Hilary Spalding Enid BagnoldLottie DundassPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provincial Lady in America" in evening.'Hilary Spalding E.M. DelafieldProvincial Lady in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Spent most of the day reading the "Paradise Lost"; I was quite delighted with it'.Harriet Wynne John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent most of the morning in bed reading Ibsen's "Ghosts", which is a masterpiece, I think.'Hilary Spalding Henrik IbsenGhostsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fortnight I might manage to finish (by February) "The Ag...Hilary Spalding Charles LambSome Essays of EliaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fortnight I might manage to finish (by February) "The Ag...Hilary Spalding Charles LambThe Best of LambPrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home doing nothing except lazily read & write.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home in reading & writing.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home reading "Night & Morning".'John Buckley Castieau Edward Bulwer LyttonNight and MorningPrint: Book
1850-1899'spent the evening at home reading'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home, amused myself with reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Spent the evening at Home. Read portion of Waverley.'John Buckley Castieau Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening at the Mechanics, read a Review in Blackwood of Barnum's work "The Life of a Showman" the critic shows no mercy & really the book is such an impudent a...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three games of cribbage with Polly'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Spent the evening reading History of the Devil, a shallow subject.'Adam Mackie Daniel DefoeThe Political History of the DevilPrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very much to show off their capabilities. Sissy & I read...Castieau familyRichard Brinsley SheridanSchool for ScandalPrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very much to show off their capabilities. Sissy & I read...Castieau familyWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of Cuvier's labours.'George Eliot (pseud) Flouren[probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier]Print: Book
1900-1945'Spent the morning reading Father's Iron and Steel address and watching the camp being pitched and correcting my German [see additional information] proofs. After lunch w...Gertrude Bell Hugh BellPresidential AddressPrint: Unknown


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