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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
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I do know the Mérimée story you speak of. It is "Tamango". A rather good piece of work. [...] I read it years ago.'Joseph Conrad Prosper MériméeTamangoPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Christopher MarloweTambourlainePrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read the play of "Tamerlane", wrote by Rowe, which I think a very good play; the character of Tamerlane is such as I think should be the character of all man...Thomas Turner Nicholas RoweTamerlanePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-diggers. Harry read the Gravediggers very well. Afterwar...Castieau familyWilliam ShakespeareTaming of the ShrewPrint: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale William ShakespeareTaming of the Shrew, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the progr...T.T. Cass William ShakespeareTaming of the Shrew, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the progr...Mrs Cass William ShakespeareTaming of the Shrew, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his taste, and re-reading "Tancred", and writing "more ...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Voltaire [pseud.]TancredPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Doro...		Howard Smith Benjamin DisraeliTancredPrint: Book
1850-1899'Dec. Not finished.'Sarah Good Benjamim DisraeliTancredPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]TancredePrint: Book
1900-1945'6th October 1928 (Saturday). So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading ?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - translated by A. Potogky- Stchekotikhina. Scripta Mane...Gerald Moore Nikolay Vasilevich GogolTaras BoulbaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Alphonse DaudetTartarin sur les AlpesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th March, Discussion Group ? annual meeting. Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).'Gerald Moore Alphonse DaudetTartarin sur les AlpesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, "but I asked him on the wro...Michael Stapleton Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan and the Jewels of OphirPrint: Book
1900-1945And, if it be in your power, bear serenely with imitators. My "Jungle Books" begat zoos of them. but the genius of all the genii was one who wrote a series called "Ta...Rudyard Kipling Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the ApesPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan the UntamedPrint: Book
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle John HooleTasso's Jerusalem DeliveredPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Din'd and sup'd with Aunt. Play'd Pickett till past 9. Read some Tatlers. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Supper alone. Tatlers. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical


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