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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'Tuesday, 9th March, Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson. The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Robinson gave an introductory explanation of money and...Gerald Moore Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Turgenev has forestalled you. & a bit to spare, in ?A Sportsman?s Sketches?, which you shall take home with you next time you come to London. These sketches are obvious...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevA Sportsman's SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I read straight off, mainly because I could not take my ...Russell ThorndykeDr SynPrint: Book
1900-1945'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I read straight off, mainly because I could not take my ...Russell ThorndykeThe return of Dr. SynPrint: Book
1500-1599'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "Howleglas" now in the Bodleian, in which he wrote the f...Gabriel Harvey anonHowleglasPrint: Book
1500-1599'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "Howleglas" now in the Bodleian, in which he wrote the f...Gabriel Harvey SkogginunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "Howleglas" now in the Bodleian, in which he wrote the f...Gabriel Harvey John SkeltonunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "Howleglas" now in the Bodleian, in which he wrote the f...Gabriel Harvey LazarillounknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Two days afterwards I wrote to Clare during an air raid, enclosing a paragraph about her parents from the "Star Man's Diary" and a short appreciation which I had vainly ...Vera Brittain "Star Man's Diary"Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Two days ago somebody shew'd me a Song written by the Duchess of Devonshire which began thus Boy! bring my Flow'rs and bind my Hair: I could but laugh to think how...Hester Lynch Thrale Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire[a Song]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Two letters from home ... Explored cellars and caves with Okell ... Search shop above and find volumes of "Lisez[?] moi."'Martin Wentworth Littlewood ?Le "Lisez Moi" Historique HistoriaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live bravely and to use my life for noble ends. These wer...Thomas Burt Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live bravely and to use my life for noble ends. These wer...Thomas Burt Frederick DouglassNarrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an Am...Print: Book
1800-1849'Two of your love poems are supremely beautiful - O let not words, the callous shell of thought & I will not say my life was sad and I like infinitely They owned the...Richard Monckton Milnes Richard Monckton MilnesPoetry for the PeoplePrint: Book
1800-1849'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and ...John Mitchel Russell (ed.)[Palestine]Print: Book
1800-1849'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and ...John Mitchel Frazer (ed.)[Persia]Print: Book
1800-1849'two papers this morning, the one that missed yesterday came today [...] I see there is a great deficiency in the Quarter's Revenue - were an individual to go in the mann...Robert Sharp n/aThe TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Two poems in [Thomas] Wilkinson's hand, "I Love to be Alone" and "Lines Written on a Paper Wrapt round a Moss-rose Pulled on New-years Day, and sent to M. Wilson," copie...Wordsworth FamilyThomas Wilkinson[poems]Unknown
1700-1799'Two very valuable articles, I am sure, we have lost [when Johnson, dying, burnt many of his papers] , which were two quarto volumes, containing a full, fair, and most pa...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[MS Autobiography]Manuscript: quarto volumes
1800-1849'Twould make a Paradise of Hell-- & fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]'Lady Caroline Lamb John MiltonParadise LostUnknown


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