Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   1512 1513 1514 1515 1516  1517  1518 1519 1520 1521 1522   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945‘A fairly idle day. I did pay parade etc. and read Leigh Hunt.' Edmund Blunden Leigh HuntSir Ralph Esher OR PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘A French poet (there are as many in France as this side), Albert Satteau, who always added to his name the dignity “des Gens de Lettres", used to receive me kindly at “L...Edmund Blunden Albert SatteauunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘A poor, miserable autobiographer naturally desires to make his personality as interesting to the reader as it appears to himself. I feel this strongly in reading o...William Henry Hudson Sergei AksakoffYears of ChildhoodPrint: Book
1900-1945‘A violent rain after midnight drenched my clothes and tackle in pockets thereof, including the fair Tennyson.’ Edmund Blunden Alfred, Lord TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849‘And what do you think of the "Doctor"? And what do you think of [John Gibson] Lockhart’s wise conjecture, that I - even I - Hartley Coleridge, assisted by my father, a...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyThe DoctorPrint: Book
1800-1849‘As to the Thucydides, I cannot think it exactly the book for me - considering how little access I have at present to classical books, and how little I know of those cr...Hartley Coleridge Thucydides[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘At present I am “on sick” with lumbago, a horrid name … "Land and Water" is still very optimistic. My thoughts go onward to the dim time after the war, and the polit...Ivor Bertie Gurney Hilaire Belloc (ed)The Country Gentleman and Land and WaterPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘At present I am “on sick” with lumbago, a horrid name … "Land and Water" is still very optimistic. My thoughts go onward to the dim time after the war, and the polit...Ivor Bertie Gurney George Holbrook JacksonSouthward Ho! And other EssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945‘At the first Ambulance I arrived at in the Car, a Corporal came up to me with a staid air of sleepy dignity that seemed somehow familiar. And when he began to enter ...Wilfred Owen unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘At Watten station [...] I sauntered by the canal then settled myself with my book in an empty cattle truck.' Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Bosch put heavies into the camp now and then. I was busy in a small way most of the day, in the afternoon read Shelley, and Wells’ “[The] Country of the Blind” with eq...Edmund Blunden Herbert George WellsThe Country of the BlindPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Bosch put heavies into the camp now and then. I was busy in a small way most of the day, in the afternoon read Shelley, and Wells’ “[The] Country of the Blind” with eq...Edmund Blunden Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘By the way I liked the Armenian article in The Cambridge Magazine.’Charles Hamilton Sorley The Cambridge MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Carlyle has not put it too strongly in Heroes. It is chiefly a matter of environment with the really great men what shape they take in their power; but with smaller ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rosaline MassonWordsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Distant from us by 300 yards … snipers were continually firing, and rockets … lit up the night outside … we had two days like that, and played Auction Bridge, talked...Ivor Bertie Gurney William CobbettRural Rides in the counties of Surrey, Kent, Susse...Print: Book
1900-1945‘Distant from us by 300 yards … snipers were continually firing, and rockets … lit up the night outside … we had two days like that, and played Auction Bridge, talked...Ivor Bertie Gurney Frederick Scott OliverOrdeal by BattlePrint: Book
1900-1945‘Distant from us by 300 yards … snipers were continually firing, and rockets … lit up the night outside … we had two days like that, and played Auction Bridge, talked...Ivor Bertie Gurney William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1800-1849‘D[erwent Coleridge] had sent me his sermon. It is very good.’Hartley Coleridge Derwent ColeridgeThe Circumstances of the Present Times, Considered...Print: Book
1900-1945‘Englebelmer, indeed, was now entering upon a dark period.[...]. Still we explored the church into which opened a mysterious tunnel; as if on holiday we examined the bri...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: parish magazine
1900-1945‘For light reading there is nothing like Arnold Bennett. So I send you "The Card". It is notable among my books as the only novel I’ve read in which I did not in some...Wilfred Owen Arnold BennettThe CardPrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   1512 1513 1514 1515 1516  1517  1518 1519 1520 1521 1522   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design