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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
 
1900-194520 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.'Virginia Woolf Notice of birth of Mark Arnold-FosterPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains...Virginia Woolf The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains...Virginia Woolf The NationPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Did you get the two Examiners I sent you? The last of them was forced into my hand by a news-vender, just as I was mounting the Coach at 7am, and what should I see in i...Thomas Carlyle Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhel...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945 ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together. This ...Arnold Bennett NationPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945 'I have now perused the L.M.I. & will inflict my views on you. It is on the whole what I should call a "sound" number – good, considering that it is a first number. ...Arnold Bennett London MercuryPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first time, I felt this death leaves me an elderly laggard;...Virginia Woolf Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Sunday 26 January 1930: 'We have been at Rodmell [...] At night I read Lord Chaplin's life.'Virginia Woolf 'Lord Chaplin's life'Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 July 1930: 'Lady L[avery] discussed the air crash [...] I was driving down to the Temple with Vita [Sackville-West], & we bought a Standard in the gateway. "...Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West report of air crash on 21 JulyPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'They arrived late that evening bringing letters from home, and newspapers. As regards the world's news I confess that the first thing I turned to was the cricket reports...Frank Smythe newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'She finished reading to me the rest of the papers and correspondence, which at present occupy so much of her thoughts'Princess Caroline Princess of Wales [papers and correspondence]Manuscript: Personal papers relating to her marriage, banishment, her supposed adultery and that of her husband, etc.
1800-1849'I also transmit Octavian, and a volume of poems written by a friend of mine. He is, poor fellow! in the last stage of a consumption; so the critics should be merciful, f...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe  Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. F...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Song of SolomonManuscript: Unknown, verse translation by Barbara Macky
1900-1945 'We were shocked and saddened to read in the newspapers of Lieutenant-Colonel H.T.Morshead's tragic death in Burma. The association of mountaineering in the past and mou...Frank Smythe (team leader) and other (unspecified) members of 1931 Kamet Expedition newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Before leaving Kampa we visited Dr Kellas's grave.[...]Then Shebby, the oldest member of the Expedition, read Psalm 121, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills," whil...E.(Edward) O.(Oliver) Shebbeare Psalm 121Unknown
1800-1849'I went to church: heard a very fine sermon. The text was taken from the Psalms. Missed the verse, and could not find it, but the meaning was that evil company corrupts g...Charlotte Bury PsalmsPrint: Book
1900-1945' Before starting on the march we attended a service in the Mission Church[...].[Hugh]Ruttledge read the first lesson and [E.O.]Shebbeare the second; it was impressive t...Hugh Ruttledge BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat chocolate.[...] Among the papers I had received by ...Frank Smythe newspapers and weekly magazinesPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'She reads a great deal, and buys all new books'Princess Caroline Princess of Wales  Print: Book
1800-1849'I read a novel all the evening, but yet his very presence is horridly degrading'Charlotte Bury [a novel]Print: Book


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