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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[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 John LylyCampaspePrint: 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 John LylyEndimionPrint: 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 John LylyGalatheaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MacdiarmidLives of British Statesmen, & cPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to God what words can else express/ The parting, and the ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine John MackintoshAdieuPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Walpoe's Turkey amd M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China.'Benjamin Newton John MacleodNarrative of a voyage in his majesty's late ship AUnknown
1800-1849'Read M'cleod's Voyage of the Alceste, his account of the Island of Lewchew is an account of the most amiable pagans I ever read of N.B. little or nothing is said of the ...Benjamin Newton John MacleodVoyage of the AlcesteUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee away and be at rest/ So prayed the Psalmist to be fre...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine John Malcolm[untitled]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much inter...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Malcolm[possibly] Government of India, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'As we sat waiting for dinner and discussing religion, our first hostile impressions were gradually smoothed away. I recited the opening chapter of the Quran and pr...Freya Stark John MalcolmThe History of PersiaPrint: Book
1800-1849The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fi...Marquess of Abercorn John Malcolm, surgeon of the AlcesteNarrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship A...Print: Book
1800-1849The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, in reponse to a gift of books: 'Lord Abercorn says he thinks your conduct with respect to sending books back that he does n...Lord and Lady AbercornJohn Malcolm, surgeon of the AlcesteNarrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship A...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".'George Eliot [pseud] John Mandeville (pseud.)TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ‘"A Devonshire Lane compared to Marriage" by Mr Marriott' beginning ‘In a Devonshire lane as I trott...Catherine Austen John MarriottA Devonshire LaneUnknown
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 John Masefield[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intentions, the kimono was abandoned for such scanty liter...Vera Brittain John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Serial / periodical, magazines
1900-1945'Those 2 poems of Masefield's are very good....Poetry counteracts the deadening influence a good deal....I am reading "The Loom of Youth" in bits....It is very good and i...Edward Brittain John MasefieldThe Loom of YouthUnknown
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings...Ernest E. Unwin John Masefield Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the top...George Burrow John Masefield Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the top...George Burrow John Masefield'Everlasting Mercy, The'Print: Book


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