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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 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett Herman MelvilleOmooPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...Mary Robson Herman MelvilleTypeePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...R.B. Graham Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...Charles Evans Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...Katherine Evans Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...George Burrow Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...Howard R. Smith Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hermann BoerhaaveA New Method of ChemistryPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Hermann Sudermann[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Woo...Winifred Agnes Moore Hermann SudermannThe Song of SongsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago. As to the translation let me tell you at once what I think. It is a bad translation . ....Arnold Bennett Hermann SudermannThe Song of SongsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am sending you a play of Sudermann's, "Heimat", which I have just read and which I must say I thought tremendous. I fancy it will suit Mr Hyde's taste and I wonder if ...Gertrude Bell Hermann SudermannHeimatPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'George Eliot [pseud] Hermann von Helmholtz[book on music]Print: Book
1800-1849'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarborough Album, and in soliciting contributions of a poe...John Cole Hermione Ballantyre Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Hermione GingoldWorld is Square, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'.Eugenia Wynne Hernan CortesCartas de relacion [??]Print: Unknown
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Herodotus  Print: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses expansive annotations made in ink by Edward Gibbon in copy of Herodotus, including corrections as well as lively critical commentary.Edward Gibbon Herodotus Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IXPrint: Book
1800-1849Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830: 'I am living here in a very pleasant place, an old country mansion, in the depths of...Henry and Arthur HallamHerodotus  Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes; multiple dates of reading , incl. "Sept 15 1915 Wallington"; "July 3 1922 A glorious winter"; "Finished Herodotus, all of him, once again this day Sept....George Otto Trevelyan Herodotus WorksPrint: Book


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