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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[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Arthur Conan DoyleSir NigelPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Reginald Robson Sir Patrick SpensPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Kenneth F. Nicholson anon Sir Patrick SpensUnknown
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Bruce Dilks anon Sir Patrick SpensUnknown
1900-1945‘A fairly idle day. I did pay parade etc. and read Leigh Hunt.' Edmund Blunden Leigh HuntSir Ralph Esher OR PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 18 April 1829: 'In the evening I heard Anne read Mr. Peel's excellent bill on the police of the Metropolis which goes to disband the whole generation of Dogb...Anne Scott Sir Robert Peel's Parliamentary Bill for metropoli...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.'John Ruskin Robert SoutheySir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and...Print: Book
1800-1849‘Of course I need not tell you...that I wrote the critique on the Pilgrim to Compostella in Blackwood – that both the Professor and I have read "the Progress and Prospe...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheySir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress an...Print: Book
1800-1849‘Of course you have read his [Robert Southey's] colloquies – and with delight – but delight mingled with sorrow, that so much beautiful truth should be intertwined, and...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheySir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress an...Print: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White Florence MacCunnSir Walter Scott's FriendsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have a copyist now - a thin-faced student in a long gown who writes out for me the manuscript of the Sultan of Qatn for which I have no time: it is six hundred p...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon]Sirat al MutawakkiliyaManuscript: Codex, Arabic history of Yemen
1900-1945His [Norman Douglas's] intention is to offer his MS [" Siren Land"] to Mr Methuen. It is jolly good--a distinguished and interesting pice of work.' Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasSiren LandManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The book ["Siren Land"]'s certain to be well noticed -- maybe attacked too; but that's no harm. I've been delighted. There are mighty fine things there.' Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasSiren LandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of "Rescue" [...]. The same evening I picked up "Sri Ram" as I limped to ...Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerSiri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life Print: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before for the book ["Siri Ram"] which I read directly it reached my hands.'Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerSiri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George BerkeleySiris: a chain of philosophical reflexionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the same No. [of Harper's Magazine] Nevinson has a story-- and Lord it is bad. The whole No. is so inept that I feel sick to see myself there.'Joseph Conrad Henry Woodd NevinsonSitting at a PlayPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:] 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Ass...Catherine Talbot Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-HaririSix assemblies; or, ingenious conversations of lea...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe...Emrys Daniel Hughes Thorold RogersSix Centuries of Work and WagesPrint: Book
1900-1945'When I reached home someone had dropped a letter in the box telling me to come over on Sunday between eleven and twelve because she would be at home then. I went, we wen...Cyril Lionel Robert James Luigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an AuthorPrint: Book


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