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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‘You mention Ian Hay and MacGill. I had a glance at Ian Hay, and wished I could read it, but had to leave it. What I saw was very good indeed … By the way have you ev...Ivor Bertie Gurney Ian HayThe First Hundred ThousandPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your parcels have arrived … You have my deepest assurances that the pleasure caused by your kindness has been considerable…. The reason I dared to ask for all these ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Ian Hay'Pip': A Romance of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945‘The next book for you to read is "A Knight on Wheels". It is great. I, with the inherited diffidence of my distinguished Grandma, must say I could never do anything ...Wilfred Owen Ian HayA Knight on WheelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'We are now on board ship and expect to have four or five days of it. It does seem a pity to have got so near home and be unable to get nearer. Still, I have heard ...Robert Dunlop Smith Ian HayThe Right StuffPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've been frightfully lazy today: it's been too hot to do anything. Pater was a gem: he brought my breakfast up about 9.30 and I didn't get up until eleven. I read...Dora Willatt Ian HayGetting TogetherPrint: Book
1900-1945'To my joy there was a book-case in the room and soon I was engrossed in a book which I later found was Ian Hay's "The First Hundred Thousand" a fictionalised account...Hymie Fagan Ian HayThe First Hundred ThousandPrint: Book
1900-1945'I received your two letters on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. I had not thought that your love for me is as great as it is and that you have loved me ever since ...Dora Willatt Ian HayA Knight on WheelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library "Women the world over" and took back "Candles in the flame" and "Lighter side of school life["].'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ian Hay (pseud.)The Lighter Side of School LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. Morn. Service. Cold much better. Read a Knight on Wheels by "Ian Hay". Card from Findlay. Much fighting on West.'William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.)A Knight on WheelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "The Right Stuff" by Ian Hay.'William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.)The Right StuffPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat. Welcome May. Letter from home. Read "The Right Stuff" by Ian Hay ... Up 62 in bridge. Thunder Storm.'William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.)The Right StuffPrint: Book
1700-1799'They have what they call the [italics] sublime [italics], that is, a style proper for poetry, and which is the exact Scripture style. I believe you would be pleased to s...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Ibrahim PashaTurkish VersesManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another now that I do not like so well - Fau[s]tina is very c...Mary Shelley Ida Grafin Hahn-HahnGrafin FaustineManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another now that I do not like so well - Fau[s]tina is very c...Mary Shelley Ida Grafin Hahn-Hahn[a novel]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company", while I read the first chapter of Silone's "Bread ...Ignazio SiloneBread and winePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Kipling's "Diversities", Steevens' "India", Wells "War [?of the Worlds]" "Dynamiter" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'Ronald Storrs Ilya Ilyich MetchnikovunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesImanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read some more of the "Edinburgh Review," but was litt...George Grote Imanuel Kant'Anthropology'Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantVermischte Schriften (vol II (of 4))Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantDie Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen VerPrint: Book


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