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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, drinking sample bottles of liqueur from Paris-Plage o...Vera Brittain Gilbert FrankauThe City of FearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read "The City of the Plague"? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, tenderness, and sublimity are mixed with description...Eleanor Anne Porden John WilsonThe City of the PlaguePrint: Book
1700-1799After supper read 'The City Widow' and part of the 'Adventures of Abdella' - 2 new books got tonight. Bed past 12.Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler HaywoodThe City Widow; or, Love in a Butt. A Novel.Print: Book
1700-1799'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and Rumphius says of his Bancudus angustifolia, which is...Joseph Banks Patrick BrowneThe Civil and Natural History of JamaicaPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 17 November 1878: "I have lately been reading Burkhardt's Renaissance and feeling all that very strongly." Henry James Jacob BurkhardtThe Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Which has indeed very much of good thought & happy expression & confirms the feeling of satisfaction that he in any way belonged to me'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Arthur HelpsThe Claims of LabourPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 6 August 1828: 'I have finished the Parriana -- but not the work on Junius.' Elizabeth Barrett E. H. BarkerThe Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K.B., to the Aut...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P...Harry McShane Robert Blatchford (ed.)The ClarionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth...Percy Wall n/aThe ClarionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley The ClarionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Later on, when Blatchford and his friends, A. M. Thompson, E. F. Fay and Montague Blatchford founded the Socialist weekly "The Clarion", I began to read it and became de...Hannah Mitchell [n/a]The ClarionPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book
1900-1945'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class girlfriend, asked her how Margaret had become pregnant...John Edmonds Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mustered & then lazily read The Cloister & the Hearth by Read until Polly came home to tea'John Buckley Castieau Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book
1850-1899'Came home to tea & spent the evening reading "The Cloister & Hearth".'John Buckley Castieau Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit...Benjamin Newton Sir John SinclairThe Code of AgriculturePrint: Book
1900-1945'The book you sent me was a great pleasure to me. Some of the ships I knew personally.'Joseph Conrad Basil LubbockThe Colonial ClippersPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, August 1809: 'I have been reading a strange poem -- the "Columbiad" of Poet [Joel] Barlow. Who or what he is I know not, except that he is an Americ...Mary Berry Joel BarlowThe ColumbiadPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 April 1901: 'I have been in the wilderness to-day but before I end I must tell you that I did live last week an hour or two -- whic...Leonard Woolf Charles MarriottThe ColumnPrint: Book


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