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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 most refreshing and quiet day in Makindye — did not even go to church. Got 9 letters written[;] in the aft. sat on the hill side and read to K. [Katharine Cook] Jowett...Katharine Cook John Henry JowettThings That Matter Most: Devotional ReadingsPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'A most refreshing and quiet day in Makindye — did not even go to church. Got 9 letters written[;] in the aft. sat on the hill side and read to K. [Katharine Cook] Jowett...Albert Ruskin Cook John Henry JowettThings That Matter Most: Devotional ReadingsPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1800-1849'A most striking book, & gives abundant food for thought & admiration, one of those which to read is an epoch for the mind… I think the whole book calculated to be of gre...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Harriet Martineau?Life in the SickroomPrint: Book
1700-1799'A Mother was making her Little Son read Nelson's Feasts and Fasts - this says he is a very good book to be sure Mama, all about our Saviourand the Apostles - but surely ...Robert NelsonCompanion for the festivals and fasts of the Churc...Print: Book
1900-1945'A motor bicycle drew up at our door and a haggard dispatch rider stumbled in to put a scrap of paper into my hand. It was a page torn out of an army notebook with a scri...Barclay Josiah Baron unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Letter, Pencilled note on a page torn out of an army notebook.
1800-1849'A Mr Gally Knight the Author of a Book of very fair Poetry, told me a Story which He thought would suit me [as the basuis of a poem]'George Crabbe Henry Gally KnightAlashtar, an Arabian Tale [?]Print: Book
1700-1799'A much greater man than Rousseau says, "The only remedy for the infectious disease of Fanaticism, is a philosophical temper, which spreading through society, at length s...James Lackington Voltaire(possibly) The Philosophical Dictionary for the po...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.'Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1800-1849'A neighbour lent me [Miss Bremer's] novel, "Brothers and Sisters," the first volume of which we thought admirable: but the latter part about Socialism, Mesmerism, and al...Harriet Martineau and neighbourFrederika BremerBrothers and SistersPrint: Book
1850-1899'A New Antigone'Sarah Good William Francis BarryThe New AntigonePrint: Book
1900-1945'A new officer has been censoring our letters the last two days. I fancy the C.O. gave orders that they were to be much more strict. He seems needlessly and brutally inqu... [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in c...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'a newspaper lye of the first order - "Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the jagonel kind in his possession which was taken [...] 4...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A note from Nic says that, if I send a coconut weekly, she will send sago pudding - very nice of her.'Thomas Kitching [letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'A notice appears on the board: "The Indian policemen on duty are Japanese subjects and you must obey them as you do the Japanese sentries. If internees do not bow to Ind...Thomas Kitching [unknown][notice]Unknown
1900-1945'A notice in "The Syonan Sinbun" again calls upon all owners of short-wave wireless sets to hand them over for conversion to medium wave only, "failing which punishment s...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A notice in "The Syonan Times" asks the public to cooperate in measures for the suppression of mosquitoes'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".'Anna Larpent Thomas HolcroftAnna St IvesPrint: Book
1900-1945'A number of Members helped by reading poems from one or other of these authors' [de la Mare, Newbolt and other George V period poets]Members of XII Book Club [poems by Georgian poets]Print: Book
1800-1849'A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the Title-page and Preface; then Jonathan on Wednesday m...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleTitle page and preface of 'German Romance'Print: Title page and prefaceManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr G...Blanche Ridges Jane Austen Print: Book


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