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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
 
1700-1799[LP recounts her first meeting with Colley Cibber] '"Sit down", said he, "be less ceremonious to be better bred; come, shew me your Writings". I obeyed; and, upon his rea...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonSorrowManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have just read Marie Corelli?s new book?my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity & the critics? contempt.' Arnold Bennett Marie CorelliSorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Charles Causley Marie CorelliSorrows of Satan, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Marie CorelliSorrows of Satan, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the...Jem Parsons Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheSorrows of Young WertherPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the ...Charles Stansfield Herbert George WellsSoul of a Bishop, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his b...Charles Stansfield Harold Fielding HallSoul of a PeoplePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read Sous Verdun which I liked very much and I am reading Ma Piece which I'm not sure I don't like still better ... It is very early in the morning. Too ear...Maurice Baring Maurice GenevoixSous VerdunPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spri...Virginia Woolf Winifred HoltbySouth RidingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Not until I read the fictitious account of this consultation four years afterwards in "South Riding" did I realise that the diagnosis then given her amounted to a verdic...Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbySouth RidingPrint: Book
1900-1945'At the time of her death I had read only part of "South Riding", which was to bring her back to me, and I found no reason to change the words which I had written in my n...Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbySouth RidingPrint: typescript
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Charles E. Stansfield Winifred HoltbySouth RidingManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[between journal entries for 20 October and 1 November 1879] 'Lady Charlotte had now for the moment deserted Shakespeare of an evening for Harrison Ainsworth's South Sea ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Harrison AinsworthSouth Sea BubblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read South Sea Tales by Jack London.'William Thomas Jack LondonSouth Sea TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell George Norman DouglasSouth WindPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'lament of the Single Ladies of Southampton' 'from the Southampton Paper' beginning 'We’re ready, we’...Catherine Austen Southampton NewspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced b...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage WallisSouthern Baroque ArtManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The Cork "Southern Reporter" echoes the new "Nation", and even tries to go beyond it in treason. Mr Barry quarrels with Mr Duffy for keeping the independence of Ireland ...John Mitchel [Barry]Southern ReporterPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now. [...] A copy of the July “BLUE” enfolding some rath...Edmund Blunden Southern WeeklyPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘At present I am “on sick” with lumbago, a horrid name … "Land and Water" is still very optimistic. My thoughts go onward to the dim time after the war, and the polit...Ivor Bertie Gurney George Holbrook JacksonSouthward Ho! And other EssaysPrint: Book


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