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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'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Stendhal [pseud. i.e. Marie-Henri Beyle]Vie de NapoléonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Gaspard GourgaudJournal de Ste. Hélène 1815-1818Print: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Marcellin PelletNapoléon à l'île d'ElbePrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Paul GruyerNapoléon, roi de l' île d'ElbePrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Jean RappMémoires écrits par lui-mêmePrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Léon Lanzac de LaborieParis sous NapoléonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson Virgil Aeneid VIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson Homer 'description of Hades'Print: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson WhewellPlurality of WorldsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred and Emily TennysonDante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
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1600-1699		'Throughout [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of [Lord Henry Howard's "A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies"] are underlinings and comments [on the necessity of ...Gabriel Harvey Lord Henry Howard, Earl of NorthamptonA Defensative against the poyson of supposed proph...Print: Book
1850-1899'Thunder, after reading "Natural History of Enthusiasm" and planning series of lectures.'John Ruskin Isaac TaylorNatural History of EnthusiasmPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thurs. Letter from Bess. Sent PC home. Read "Bad Times" Ireland by George A. Birmingham. Game of rounders.'William Thomas George A. BirminghamThe Bad TimesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thurs. Nil by mail. Read Red Eve by Ryder Haggard.'William Thomas Henry Rider HaggardRed EvePrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday -- 13th [October]. Read Political Justice.'Claire Clairmont William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 11th November. ?Opium-eater? again.' Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 14th October ?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'. Gerald Moore Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 19th August ?For faith and Freedom? ? (Walter Besant)'. Gerald Moore Walter BesantFor Faith and FreedomPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 1st July This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use of the shortened day. We should have gone to see Da...Gerald Moore Rose MacaulayOrphan IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 22nd July. ?Unparliamentary Papers? (Reg Berkeley). I am on my own in the luncheon hours now and find it difficult to escape boredom. I am as fond of conver...Gerald Moore Reg BerkeleyUnparliamentary papersPrint: Book


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