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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'Read most of day. I am reading "Dandelion Days", and love it. I must get some more of the Henry Williamson books.'Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonDandelion DaysPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonBeautiful Years, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonSalar the SalmonPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonDream of Fair Women, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonStar-born, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a little with that mannered & sterile Bussy now [...] I...Virginia Woolf Henry WilliamsonGoodbye West CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] He cant move an inch from the glare of his own person...Virginia Woolf Henry WilliamsonGoodbye West CountryPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I shall never forget Baretti's Critique upon it as I th...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry Wooton'Ye meaner beauties of the night'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I shall never forget Baretti's Critique upon it as I th...Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti Henry Wooton'Ye meaner beauties of the night'Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Augustus Dillon-LeeThe Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers, aPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Augustus Dillon-LeeThe Life and Opinions of Sir Richard MaltraversPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Augustus ZwickCalmuc TartaryPrint: Book
1900-1945On p. 206 (last page of text) 'Read Novr 13th/19th 1903 L A W' in pencil manuscript. In addition, a bookplate on inside front cover: 'Laurence A. Waldron.' with a c...Laurence A Waldron Henry Austin DobsonFanny BurneyPrint: Book
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings...Alfred Rawlings Henry Charles Beeching Print: Book
1850-1899'Jenkin wrote to say he would second me in such a nice little notelet. I shall go in for it (the Savile I mean) whether "V.H." is accepted or not, being now a man of mean...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Charles Fleeming JenkinletterManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Mon. Nil [i.e., no post]. Gym. Hurt finger. Read The Orange Lady by Bailey.'William Thomas Henry Christopher BaileyMy Lady of OrangePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delig...Henry James Henry Crabbe RobinsonMemoirsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I had a letter from America, and the party who buttered me so free in last Century is, it appears, one J. C. Bunner.'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Cuyler Bunner[review of New Arabian Nights in Century]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'... I ask you particularly to thank Mr Bunner ... for his notice, which was of that friendly, headlong sort that really pleases an author like what the French call a "sh...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Cuyler Bunner[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical


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