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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'In the evenings, if I have no one else below, I climb upstairs to sit in comfort except for mosquitoes - enormous creatures with white rings round their legs - tha...Elinor Wight Gardner [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have a copyist now - a thin-faced student in a long gown who writes out for me the manuscript of the Sultan of Qatn for which I have no time: it is six hundred p...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon]Sirat al MutawakkiliyaManuscript: Codex, Arabic history of Yemen
1900-1945'In the evening all the boys came rushing excited to my terrace with baskets full of pots. They are rough and ugly, but they have pre-Islamic letters scratched on t...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][inscriptions]Unknown
1900-1945I was also pained but amused at the pink, paper- bound novels that went about: I asked my neighbour to read me a paragraph, and this was it: "'Good God,' said Susann...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown romance novel]Print: Book
1900-1945The people in the beds near me also kept quiet during the days before the operation, when I lay busily reading about South Arabia, and this delicacy I have always r...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][book on South Arabia]Print: Book
1900-1945I have been rather feeble and depressed all summer, and it will probably do a lot of good to walk about the hills of Arabia. I have been reading books about it and ...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown book about Arabia]Print: Book
1900-1945'Last night I sent a field service card just to let you know that I received the parcel alright on Sunday. It was packed very well. There was a lot of stuff in it, ...Anon Anon [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Well, I have got another change. Am on night duty again, but among the officers. Have been doing it just a week ... It is 5.45 now and I will soon take a cup of te...Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'This letter will probably not be finished this evening, for I am writing it in the YMCA hut at 6 o'clock and there is such a noise of chairs and tables being moved...Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday I was given half the day off. In the afternoon I went to my tent and lay down to read and sleep. In the evening I sat in the Salvation Army room and read...Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'This afternoon I was off duty so got into my blankets at 1.45 and read a book until I fell asleep, and woke at 4.30.'Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and rambles that took up so much of my time, but I would try to overcome my disinclination to serious reading. There we...William Henry Hudson [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'It was not strange in these circumstances [suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the religious literatur...William Henry Hudson [Anon] [Anon][An Answer to the Infidel]Print: Book
1900-1945'By the time my wife goes to bed at 9 or soon after, I feel too tired to do anything except sit by the fire and read a little poetry, then go to bed myself—without ...William Henry Hudson [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945I am reading some Yemeni legends and tales. One nice one about two rival doctors, a good and a bad one: the King said he would take as his family physician the one ...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][Yemeni legends and tales]Unknown
1900-1945I have been studying the little pamphlet [on the Arabs] in the train and feel that, though you have improved the language, the whole thing is so ineffective that it...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][British propaganda pamphlet (anti-Italian) in Ara...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified manuscript belonging to Saladin]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified manuscript of the 8th century A.D.]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed, keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I can't tell you what a lo...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified manuscript stamped by the 4th Timuri...Manuscript: Codex, illuminated manuscript
1900-1945We went to St. Tropez to see my Alsatian friends and pushed on to lunch at Paradou, and found A. Besse very cheerful with 7 ladies (including ourselves) around him,...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][intelligence reports from Abyssinia]Unknown


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