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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'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The...members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Pleasure of Winter Bathing, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The...members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]On Washing Seldom & then not muchManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The...members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]PoetryManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I hav...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]The ScotsmanPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I hav...Thomas Carlyle [unknown]The Sale RoomPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A verse from Thomas Hardy's "In time of the Breaking of Nations" floated into my mind from the volume of his poems that Edward had sent me in Malta: "Only thin sm...Vera Brittain Thomas HardyIn Time of the Breaking of NationsPrint: 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
1900-1945'A very exciting book called "The Secret Battle" by APH. It is about the last war, and is rather pathetic in parts. I really oughtn't to be reading fiction these days b...Hilary Spalding A.P. HerbertSecret Battle, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'A very fair measure of French and some skill in drawing appear to have been the most striking accomplishments which Charlotte carried back from Roe Head [school] to Hawo...Charlotte Bronte Voltaire HenriadePrint: Book
1800-1849'A very small market this day... I saw Bells's life in London with a portrait of Mr Canning. It is a strange rough concern, the onlyconsolation is that it cannot be his l...Robert Sharp Bell's Life in London and Sporting ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'A Vision The Night-Mare came to my silent bed... Miss Porter'Bowly groupAnna Maria PorterA VisionUnknown
1900-1945'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'Antonia White [unknown][MSS by or about Carlyle]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"'John Clare Samuel JohnsonThe Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'A Wish' 'Rogers' [transcribes text] 'Mine be a cot beside a hill...'Mary Dugdale Samuel RogersThe WishUnknown
1900-1945'A word or two before I turn in. Magrath (who is a veritable godsend to me in every way, Christian, cheery, brave and wise) is reading the Times and warming his toe...C. J. Magrath TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read it then'. Virginia Woolf Mrs Humphry WardA Writer's RecollectionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'A young hopeful from the Women's camp, aged five, asked what he was going to do when he grew up, said, "Go over to the Men's Camp". Comment of "Pow-Wow", the ladies peri...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Pow-WowPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'A young man sat in the corner of another cell with his cheek leaning on his hand and his elbow resting on the table. He appeared to be absorbed reading. The labour machi...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sitting. Noone seems very interested in the soldiers. T... unknown[book]Print: Book
1900-1945'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sitting. Noone seems very interested in the soldiers. T... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown


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