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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'Alan taught himself to read in about thee weeks from a book called Reading without Tears.'Alan Mathison Turing Fauvel Lee MortimerReading Without TearsPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have been much instructed by the readings on poetry and long for the Irish Tales'.Romilly FamilyRichard Lovell EdgeworthReadings on poetryPrint: Book
1700-1799?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning them. I am now looking over, for this purpose, Wilkin...Maria Edgeworth John WilkinsReal Character or an Essay towards universal philo...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook William II, Emperor of Germany Real Kaiser, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculous. I am sending you a copy of 'Polite Farces' by thi...Arnold Bennett Philip GibbsRealities of WarPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Helps's Realmah yesterday and the day before. [...] His essays are old-womanish. I have to "set a paper" on that book and am quite unprepared to ask a single ques...Sir Walter Raleigh Arthur HelpsRealmahPrint: Book
1900-1945'[included in diary entry] SANTAYANA ('Reason in Common Sense') "There may well be intense consciousness in the total absence of rationality. Such consciousness is sugge...Antonia White George SantayanaReason in Common SensePrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington JenkinsReasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Relig...Print: Book
1800-1849'Jenkin's is the most copious and the best work I ever read in defence of divine revelation. It treats in a clear manner of the necessity of a divine revelation, antiqui...James Lackington Robert JenkinReasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Reli...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Pal...James Lackington Robert JenkinReasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Reli...Print: Book
1700-1799'Baxter's "Reasons of the Christian Religion", he thought contained the best collection of the evidences of the divinity of the Christian system.' Samuel Johnson Richard BaxterReasons of the Christian Religion, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Daphne Du MaurierRebeccaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".'Daphne Du MaurierRebeccaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I lik...Daphne Du MaurierRebeccaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.		Elsie Harrod Daphne Du MaurierRebeccaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unworthy of being one of Scott's heroines. The book want...John Ruskin Louis AgassizRecherches sur les poissons fossilesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. Nil [i.e., no mail]. Reading Recits d'un Soldat.'William Thomas Amédée ArchardRecits d'un SoldatPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'Mary is deep in the 2nd volume of the "Recluse of Norway" by Miss Porter - there is a wonderful cleverness in th...Mary Wordsworth Anna Maria PorterRecluse of Norway, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'Mary is deep in the 2nd volume of the "Recluse of Norway" by Miss Porter - there is a wonderful cleverness in th...Dorothy Wordsworth Anna Maria PorterRecluse of Norway, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph for Brains. I have had very great pleasure in readi...Sydney Smith (ed.) Lady DacreRecollections of a ChaperonPrint: Book


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