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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'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Robert Graves[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Thomas Stearns Eliot[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell David Herbert Lawrence[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Front Line book has just been issued, and we are all reading it. Managed to snaffle Mr Hillyard's copy before he had seen it himself, and have wept many tears this...Vere Hodgson Ministry of Home Security Front Line 1940-41: The Official Story of the Civi...Print: Book
1850-1899'The gay and free S.C. has at last written to me; but has not pleased me: does he think I can do anything with my “Spring-time”, that’s what I want to know.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson.'Walter Scott Harriet WilsonMemoirsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'The German book is getting praise rather than censure: I was about sending Alick a copy of the last Examiner Newspaper, where it was rather sensibly criticised. The man...Thomas Carlyle Signed as 'Q' Review of 'German Romance' by Thomas CarlylePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The girl has joined the library. She's a big reader. Reads about 2 books a week. She's begun to start bringing home "love" books now. The boy isn't a bit keen on reading... unknown["love" stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'The girl [Ada Byron] was then [1831] seventeen; her mother had been reading Harriet Martineau's Five Years of Youth, and wrote to a friend: "It is very good -- chiefly d...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Harriet MartineauFive Years of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's Masterpiece over general giggles: "It contained expl...Mary Bertenshaw [anon]Aristotle's MasterpiecePrint: Book
1850-1899'The greatest pleasure I have lately had has been the perusal of the 2 last volumes of Froude's Carlyle.'Henry James James Anthony FroudeThomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London, 1Print: Book
1900-1945'The greatest pleasure to me was to go with May to her bedroom and read the 103rd Psalm and [share?] with her a special birthday prayer before she got up.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Psalm 103Print: Book
1700-1799'The growth of the Rhizophora also pleased me much, although I had before a very good idea of it from Rumphius, who has a very good figure of the tree in his Herb. Amboin...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AmboinensisPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Guide book simply magnificent [italics] Everlastingly good!. I've read it last night having only then returned home.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamNotes on the District of MenteithPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Guided Life'Sarah Good George BodyThe Guided LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'The gum-trees were like those in the last bay, both in leaf and in producing a very small proportion of gum; on the branches of them and other trees were large ants' nes...Joseph Banks Sir Hans SloaneHistory of JamaicaPrint: Book
1700-1799'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquainted with Johnson's mode of penmanship which at all ti...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[original notes for "Irene"]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquainted with Johnson's mode of penmanship which at all ti...Mr Langton Samuel Johnson[original notes for "Irene"]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquainted with Johnson's mode of penmanship which at all ti...George III Samuel Johnson[original notes for "Irene"]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The Heaven was Cloudless' [transcript of poem, no author given]Mary Groom Bernard BartonThe Heaven was CloudlessUnknown


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