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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
 
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": " ... when ... [Harvey] and [Philip] Sidney went through books 1-3 [of Livy's Romanae historiae],...Gabriel Harvey and Philip SidneyFrontinus StratagemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'Mary Shelley Alicia LefanuStrathallanPrint: Book
1800-1849'In truth I have read nothing these three months but "Strathallan," which I heard much of when it came out, but feel disappointed in now. The fact is that the time is pa...Eleanor Anne Porden unknownStrathallanPrint: Book
1900-1945Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say it is better than 'Impressions'. Arnold Bennett Ethel SmythStreaks of LifePrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though by very little bits at a time, to go entirely through...Mary Berry Hannah MoreStrictures on the Modern System of Female Educatio...Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to readings from the plays of Galsworthy. The plays thus dealt with were: Justice. A bit o' Love. Strife.'Members of XII Book ClubJohn GalsworthyStrifePrint: Book
1900-1945'I simply had to tell you having been impressed by seeing for the first time in my life a work of imagination acting upon an average sensibility with the personal, myster...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyStrifeManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I read "Strong Poison" all day and enjoyed it thoroughly.'Hilary Spalding Dorothy SayersStrong PoisonPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gr...George Gregory Strongdold the GladiatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newcomes" by Thackeray "Stuart of Dunleath" by Mrs Norton...Albert Battiscombe Caroline Elizabeth Sarah NortonStuart of Dunleath. A story of the present timePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Donald HankeyStudent in Arms, APrint: Book
1850-1899?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great...Thomas Burt ToddStudent's ManualPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London Library atmosphere effused. Turned me against all l...Virginia Woolf F. L. LucasStudies French and EnglishPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Clifford's book reached me only yesterday--the 15th [...] The book is interesting, has insight and of course unrival[l]ed knowledge of the subject. But it is not lite...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordStudies in Brown HumanityPrint: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout.Vernon Lee Mary Arnold-ForsterStudies in DreamsPrint: Book
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...		Roger Moore Arthur Quiller-CouchStudies in Literature: First SeriesPrint: Book
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...		Roger Moore Arthur Quiller-CouchStudies in Literature: First SeriesPrint: Book
1900-1945?I have received your book and in spite of your permission to abstain, have read it from first to last? My ignorance of the subject was pretty exhaustive but I knew just ...Leslie Stephen Herbert FisherStudies in Napoleonic statesmanship: GermanyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".'John Cole RhindStudies in Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was during Michaelmas term of 1874 that Wilde first opened "Studies in the History of the Renaissance", a collection of art essays penned by the Oxford Classics don W...Oscar Wilde Walter PaterStudies in the History of the RenaiisancePrint: Book


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