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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'An imaginative aunt who, for my ninth birthday, sent a copy of the "Arabian Nights", was, I suppose, the original cause of trouble. Unfostered and unnoticed, the l...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]The Arabian Nights' EntertainmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

Charles E. Stansfield Halliday SutherlandThe Arches of the YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since September 6th [...] Somehow, my reading had lapsed [...] O...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ScottThe Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the Histo...Print: Book
1900-1945'At luncheon [read] Scott's "Architecture of Humanism", a valuable and permanent contribution to honest thought on the subject, and a book I rejoice to have. But Lord, h...Ronald Storrs Geoffrey ScottThe Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the Histo...Print: Book
1850-1899'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherso...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford [n/a]The Armenian MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own library: '"the books were chiefly old and odd volum...Thomas Carter The ArminianPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Charlotte M. YongeThe Armourer’s Apprentice Print: Book
1700-1799'Read over Rosewell's "Life 7 Tryal" 8vo 17[18]'.Anthony Hammond Samuel RosewellThe Arraignment and Tryal of T. Rosewell, for High...Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 February 1920: 'Mother is reading "The Arrow of Lead" as she calls it, and finds it very slow.'Alice Clara Forster Joseph ConradThe Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two NotesPrint: Book
1600-1699'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditati...Isaac Archer Joseph HallThe Art of Divine MeditationPrint: Book
1800-1849At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more particularly pleased. There are several hints for journal ...Anne Lister The art of employing time to the greatest advantag...Print: Book
1900-1945I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leatherL it defeated me. Words...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Nicholas SoyerThe Art of Paper Bag CookeryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" M...Alfred Rawlings Horace The Art of PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.'George Eliot (pseud) HoraceThe Art of Poetry an Epistle to the PisosPrint: Book
1500-1599'On sig. AIv of [John] Blundevill, ["The fower chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanship"], [Gabriel] Harvey inscribes: "I use Mr Astley [John Astley's "The Art of Ridi...Gabriel Harvey John AstleyThe Art of RidingPrint: Book
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1600-1699		Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading, and light annotation, of Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War.Gabriel Harvey Niccolo MachiavelliThe Art of WarPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 12 June 1796: 'Have you read Fawcetts Art of War? with all the faults of Young it possesses more beauties — & is in many...Robert Southey Joseph FawcettThe Art of WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf George PuttenhamThe Arte of English PoesiePrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'In the preface to Thomas Wilson's "The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence" (1567), the text recounts God's granting the gift of eloq...Gabriel Harvey Thomas WilsonThe arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as ...Print: Book


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