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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'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read "Tales of Two People".'John Frederick William Dunn John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).'John Frederick William Dunn John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Book
1700-1799'I then read Mason on self knowledge till dinner, not with so much attention as I could wish; I seldom attend sufficiently to what I am reading, to remember at all accura...Elizabeth Gurney John MasonSelf-knowledge: A TreatisePrint: Book
1700-1799'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, which I like vastly and found really doing me good, at l...Elizabeth Gurney John MasonSelf-knowledge: A TreatisePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear that Cambridge and London were a bit archaic as to the ...Winifred Agnes Moore John Maynard KeynesThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Mon...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it...Sarah Harriet Burney John McLeodNarrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship t...Print: Book
1700-1799Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it.Frances Hamilton John Mead[Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitan...Print: Book, Pamphlet
1600-1699[Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be payed from imported commodities ...'; p. 49 against...Johannes [ie John] Chrystie John MiddletonThe laws and acts of the first ParliamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.Katherine Mansfield John Middleton MurryThe Loneliness of Leon BloyPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.Katherine Mansfield John Middleton MurryThe Loneliness of Leon BloyPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'When Middleton Murry attacked George Moore in an editorial of the "Adelphi" in April 1924, he [Arnold Bennett] wrote a very strong letter of protest, and rightly: Murry'...Arnold Bennett John Middleton MurryWrap me up in my Aubusson CarpetPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-194529 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas fo...Philip Morrell John Middleton MurryReview of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and O...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read Millar on the English government &c-'Thomas Carlyle John MillarHistorical View of the English Government, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing duty of writing a few lines to you, by the conveyanc...Thomas Carlyle John MillarHistorical View of the English Government, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: amo...John Stuart Mill John MillarHistorical View of the English Government Print: Book
1850-1899'Thanks for the copy of "Good Reading". It's a charming little book.'Joseph Conrad John MillarBooks: A Guide to Good ReadingPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MillerSermons Intended to Show a Sober Application Of Sc...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'Paradise Lost and 'regaind' "'Comus' & 'Allegro' & 'P...John Clare John Milton Print: Book
1850-1899'If Clynes needed a second lesson in the subversive power of print, it came when his foreman nearly sacked him for sneaking a look at "Paradise Lost" during a work break ...J.R. Clynes John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness / 'When I consider how my light is spent...'[transcript of text]Emma Bowly John MiltonSonnet XIX When I consider how my light is spentUnknown


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