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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'A postcard from George Rheam says that a V.C. named Baxter, who died in Jan[uary] is now discovered to have been an Old Blue. Also the Push has seen a great many of us O...Edmund Blunden  Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary th...

Henry Marriage Wallis William Morris Unknown
1900-1945'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, at least in the Windlestone library [at Windlestone ...Anthony Eden Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Print: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined, as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John i...Ronald Storrs Alfred, Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined, as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John i...Ronald Storrs Algernon Charles Swinburne Print: Book
1850-1899'What a pathetic Essay the last volume of Leslie Stephen's. It is evidently a pouring out of his soul on his wife.'Emma Darwin Leslie Stephen Print: Book
1900-1945'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about the British Army, even if we had time to read them, a...Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by post - just what I want here.'Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of periodicals, a glowing brazier, puddings, and plenty.'Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians...Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is "Blighty". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kipling's stories in which [italics]"Belait"[end italic...Douglas Herbert Bell Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1900-1945'Glorious day, warm sun. It is funny to sit here quietly chatting and reading with a peaceful view behind over field and wood, when if you move two feet you are as good a...Douglas Herbert Bell  Unknown
1900-1945'It does my heart good — I, who have been so deeply distressed by the tone of the newspapers since my return from France — to hear the soldiers reading them w...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool  Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'My mother had a school-board pupil-teacher to read aloud to her during part of the winter; she wrote: ''I embarked with her in such a frivolous novel all about flirtatio...Emma Darwin Charlotte Mary Yonge Print: Book
1900-1945At Sea, 26 January, 1915. ... A little sketch of the multifarious activities which are going on, simultaneously, on this ship, throughout the live-long day, may interest...First A.I.F.  Print: Unknown
1900-1945'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'John Buchan Lawrence Sterne Print: Book
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 Victor Hugo Print: Book
1850-1899'... the work has come, and a very portly tome it is; and I have already read Lodge and Webster...'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse Print: Book
1900-1945'Much as he had liked [his previous employers], George Michael [Clarkson] liked the builder-brothers just as well. The feeling was mutual, and the brothers tried to fill ...George Michael Clarkson  Print: Book
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1850-1899		'Life of a coster girl — one of six children, "She [mother] always liked to hear us read to her whilst she was washing or such like! and then we big ones had to lea... unknown Unknown


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