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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'My talk on "The Development of Malayan Surveys" is read by Sworder. It goes very well. Many people come and congratulate me on it.'Thomas KitchingThe Development of Malayan SurveysManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1...Winifred Agnes Moore D.W. BroganThe Development of Modern FrancePrint: Book
1700-1799Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1.Gertrude Savile Thomas JevonThe Devil of a WifePrint: Book
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 George Bernard ShawThe Devil's DisciplePrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Hoffman] had made some translations from the German which he does extremely [well], for give him ideas and he never wants choice of good words, and Lockhart had got ...Walter Scott E.T.A. HoffmanThe Devil's ElixirsPrint: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett W.B. MaxwellThe Devil's GardenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.<...		Isabel Taylor Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Devil’s ThoughtsUnknown
1900-1945'Beira all day — am getting on with Surgical Diagnosis, & Tropical Diseases by Stitt.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward Rhodes StittThe Diagnosis and Treatment of Tropical DiseasesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'750 miles due E. of Ascension Island. Wireless Reuters as usual. America in State of War. W. drive still continues. Close on St. Quentin ... Finished Stitt's Tropical Di...Albert Ruskin Cook Edward Rhodes StittThe Diagnosis and Treatment of Tropical DiseasesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
Surgical Diagnosis – Martin
Tropical Diseases – Stitt
Abdominal Injuries – Morison & R.
Household ...		Albert Ruskin Cook Edward Rhodes StittThe Diagnosis and Treatment of Tropical DiseasesPrint: Book
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Albert Ruskin Cook Max PembertonThe Diamond ShipPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Diamond ShipPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1800-1849'... Anne Thackeray ... discovered ... [Burney's Diary and Letters] in her father's library and felt inspired to become a diarist and novelist ...'Anne Thackeray Frances BurneyThe Diary and LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. As an introduction to our...		Bruce Dilks George GrossmithThe Diary of a NobodyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to choose books without war interest. For that reason I try and get books of ...E M DelafieldThe Diary of a Provincial LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James, in letters to his brother, and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs William James (25 May 1894; 28 May 1894) discusses his reading of his copy of his sister Alice James...Henry James Alice JamesThe Diary of Alice JamesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 29 August 1938: 'Just finished Lady Fred Cavendish's diaries: no vigour, no insight, no originality. All as drab and dowdy as Mabel's ...Virginia Woolf Lady Frederick CavendishThe Diary of Lady Frederick CavendishPrint: Book
1900-1945'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'Virginia Woolf F. G. KittonThe Dickens CountryPrint: Book
1800-1849transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell'Mary Groom Thomas CampbellThe dirge of wallaceUnknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevlyan, 11 February 1906: 'Very many thanks for Fry's book [The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds]. It seems, though I have only had time to ...Leonard Woolf Roger FryThe Discourses of Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint: Book


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