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Benjamin Disraeli : Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes)
Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli], in order to lie down, a lady said to me, "Let me look at one of those books," and without further word of question or acknowledgement, took it from my hand, and began reading. I was a [italics]little surprised[end italics], but said nothing, and went to sleep.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Benjamin Disraeli : Contarini Fleming (second volume)
Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli],in order to lie down, a lady said to me, "Let me look at one of those books," and without further word of question or acknowledgement, took it from my hand, and began reading [...] Arrived at the Delaware, we took boat again; and, as I was sitting very quietly reading "Contarini Fleming", with the second volume lying on the stool by my feet, the same unceremonious lady who had [italics]borrowed[end italics] it before, snatched it up without addressing a single syllable to me, read as long as she pleased, and threw it down again in the same style before she went to dinner.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
[n/a] : [playbill]
'The boy was reading a play bill, when the prisoner went up to him and struck him, knocking out one of his teeth.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Advertisement, Poster, playbill
Charles Darwin : Origin of species
'The conversation went on about Darwin's "Origin of species", and F. said to S. "tha doesn't favour a monkey, but tha acts like one." R. said "I think he's bloody crackers". S. went on to say their house was full of books, so F. said "Don't you think it's about time you started reading them". Eventually between them they got S. that tied up in argument he had to retire, and shook hands with us all and went home.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
[unknown] : Carpentier's life
'D. Did you ever read Carpentier's life, I've been reading it in a illustrated paper, 'e thought 'e was on a easy thing 'e never trained. Battling Siki knocked everything out of 'im.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical, illustrated paper
Bronislaw Malinowski? : [unknown]
'Our own attitude and our feeling of amateur enterprise have been summed up by Professor Bronislaw Malinowski, who in our first year's "Report" (Lindsay Drummond, 1938) describes how he first met one of us reading a paper to the Institute of Sociology.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Sheet, Academic paper
Humbert Wolf : The Uncelestial City
'A lady I know well was sitting by the fire one evening. She wanted something to read so she reached out a hand to the bookcase by her side and took out a book at random. It was Humbert Wolf's "The Uncelestial City". She read the entire book. Then she had finished she lay back in the chair thinking, and it seemed to her that Wolf came into the room and sat down opposite her.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
: Chronicle
'Well, I think I really didn't think they were going too well really. I read the leading article in the Chronicle... they try to make things look as bright as possible, I think, but by the trend of it, I didn't think it was very bright. We don't hear a lot about it and of course it makes people sometimes wonder what is happening.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
: Daily Mirror
'Yes, I read the article too. It shocked me. I think if it all had to be printed - I mean the advertisement - it was quite enough to do it in the way it was done. I don't see that all this so-called freedom of the sexes and all this calling a spade a spade, has increased morality. I am sure the women of my day at any rate were pure and modest in a way girls aren't now.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
unknown : To sing with the Angels
'We had a few business connections with Prague in pre-war days, and our customers' knowledge of English always impressed rue, and within the last year I have read three books concenring Czechoslovakia, the most enlightening one being a fictional one "To sing with the Angels". I should say that the Czechs are one of the most progressive European people, and that after the war they will probably be the most powerful people in Central Europe. It is only to be hoped that their most useful people are not just liquidated by the Nazis.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
unknown : unknown
'I only know from what I read, but the fact that the Nazis have to keep a huge Gestapo force inside Czech Territory is sufficient proof of the stubborn resistance put up by the inhabitants, I should imagine they attempt to trip the Germans up at every step, and unfortunately many of them pay with their lives for this. The news coming out of Cz. is fairly comprehensive, and this suggests that their underground movement is well organised. Cz. has been many times under the Conqueror's heel, and it is therefore hardly to be expected that they would tamely submit without a struggle.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown
: newspaper
"The 'Straight from the Beach at Dunkirk' you mean? I ask you....To be quite candid I've never seen anything so ridiculous in all my life. Yesterday I read it in the paper about two fusiliers. I don't think it's popular publicity. Fancy two fellows having been through what they've been through. I think it's an insult to the average intelligence to put things like that in the paper."
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
William and Martha Dodd : Ambassador Dodd's Diary
'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read since have brought me out and shown me that I would have done my duty and my country much better that many. "Ambassador Dodd's Diary" helped me a lot. He was sincere and true. I've seen how the few good souls in all countries who warned us re Germany and Japan were ignored and fools went on their way rejoicing in their power luxuries and parties - and ignorance...I see that privilege got these fools into power...Books have helped a lot... this newest is fine, "your M.P." by Tiberius G......And I who know nothing am not satisfied with my education...know I'd have used the chances...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Tiberius G : Your M.P
'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read since have brought me out and shown mw that I would have done my duty and my country much better that many. "Ambassador Dodd's Diary" helped me a lot. He was sincere and true. I've seen how the few good souls in all countries who warned us re Germany and Japan were ignored and fools went on their way rejoicing in their power luxuries and parties - and ignorance...I see that privilege got these fools into power...Books have helped a lot... this newest is fine, "your M.P." by Tiberius G......And I who know nothing am not satisfied with my education...know I'd have used the chances...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
: newspaper
'Arrived 8.45 am, left 5.45. Left early with Mac's permission, though Bailey said he wouldn't risk it. Did 10 minutes work all through the day. One lorry arrived four times. This meant that I gave the driver four tickets and one day-work ticket, and stated on a form that three loads of firewood and one of bricks had been taken to Hardington St and Hyde Park respectively. The rest of the time I lounged or sat about and chatted with the others, and had the usual snacks and cups of tea. I am checking for one site only. At one time I read a paper, but felt it met with disfavour. Apparently the firm doesn't mind you wasting time, but doesn't like you filling in such time in your own interests. After 4.45 the lorry had gone for the last time and there was nothing more I could possibly do, yet if I had gone then I would have lost 11/4 hours' pay. By staying to nearly six I will be paid full time, although I did nothing.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
Lyndoe : unknown texts on Astrology
'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and study him regularly, and I find it's a great help.....things don't seem to go wrong anywhere near so much as before I started reading him. I really have great faith in him.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown
: information on clothes rationing
'When I first read about it I thought to myself; "I don't think that's going to affect me at all; 66 coupons! Why, I shall need half of it!" But then I began to buy things for my boy - a pair of trousers, a couple of pairs of socks, and two summer shirts - then I began to think to myself: "Well, what am I going to do for his winter things?"' coupons doesn't go far, when you start to spend it.' I think a lot of people didn't realise that at the start."
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown, could be news or pamphlets
: [newspaper]
'"I just went down the Post an' when I come back it was as flat as this 'ere wharfside - there was just my 'ouse like-well, part of my 'ouse. My sissus were just making me a cup of tea for when I come 'ome. She were in the passage between the kitchen and the wash-'ouse, where it blowed 'er. She were burnt right up to 'er waist. 'Er legs were just two cinders. And 'er face... The only thing I could recognize 'er by was one of 'er boots... I'd 'ave lost 15 'omes if I could 'ave kept my missus. We used to read together. I can't read mesen. She used to read to me like. We'd 'ave our arm-chairs one either side o' the fire,. And she read me bits out o' the paper. We 'ad a paper every evening. Every evening.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
Jill Adams : News Chronicle
'I think newspapers do a lot towards it, because one of the first things I do is to look at the women's page in the News Chronicle. I read her - Jill Adams, I think her name is, and sure enough you see something crop up. I may be out, see something on somebody that I like, and try and copy it. I make my own a lot, since I have been married, necessity started it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
: Monitor
'You mean the Monitor? I read it because I think it's better than any English papers. It doesn't mix its news and views up together, like Beaverbrook's dirty rags do.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
: [Report into Insurance Companies' finances]
'...Naturally the Insurance Companies are feeling a bit sick and when the report is delved into, this is hardly to be wondered at. I have only read a wee bit of the report so far, but one thing has struck me. It does not seem right, as Sir William points out, that Insurance Companies should make money, and so much of it too, on human life and suffering.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown
: news
'I have very little feeling about them, especially in war-time. I used to admire what I read about them and their tidiness and efficiency and agriculture in peace time. since the war I have not met any of them, though like everyone I read about their fine fighting in the East Indies and about their fleet.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
Cordell Hull : unknown
'Unconditional surrender. I don't think America will allow us to do anything different. I read the other day where Cordell Hull said there would be no peace talks, it would be settled on the battlefield; and we have to do what America says now, I think.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown
: news
'I have read how delayed demobilisation after the last war led to disaffection and mutiny among the troops: but it seems that part of the reason there was that the troops concerned, back in camps and depots from the fighting fronts, found themselves condemned to day after weary day of "soldering" -spit and polish run mad-as the only occupation the officers of those days could think of as an alternative to fighting.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
Marcel Proust : unknown
'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except when I read Ellis's Sunlight on Parnassus" to B. while she was ironing".
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Ellis : Sunlight on Parnassus
'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except when I read Ellis's "Sunlight on Parnassus" to B. while she was ironing'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
: newspaper
'a friend of mine read in the paper that some people had recently left Italy for America. She says they are the Italian Royal Family and that they are getting out of Italy whilst they can.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
Mary Border : Passport for a girl
'I had been reading Mary Border's book "Passport for a girl" and the day following my dream, I was interested to read in Page 201 describing the Austrian Anschluss, how old men and pregnant women were kept marching round till they dripped from exhaustion.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Sigmund Freud :
'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scientific detachment they advocate, for the life of me I couldn't help but look upon this as a warning and for weeks afterwards I was alarmingly apprehensive of disaster, though nothing did happen to justify this terrifying experience.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Dunne : unknown
'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scientific detachment they advocate, for the life of me I couldn't help but look upon this as a warning and for weeks afterwards I was alarmingly apprehensive of disaster, though nothing did happen to justify this terrifying experience.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
: questionnaire about margarine
'My personal opinion of margarine has quite changed owing to the arrival of this questionnaire. My mother opened it by mistake, but finding it was not of a private nature, read the questions. When I arrived home for tea that evening she asked as if I felt hungry. I replied, yes, and went on reading the paper, 'Here is a piece of bread and butter for you to go on with' she said.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Broadsheet, Questionnaire / survey sheet
: advertisements about margarine
'She goes on: "I read the advertisements stating margarine's superiority to butter with a quiet smile, and a mental thought of 'I don't think!' I think my sales-resistance to these advertisements is, as the Americans say, 100%".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Advertisement
: leaflets
'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspapers.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Advertisement
: newspapers
'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspapers.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
Lady Roberts : unknown
'The other day I read an article by Lady Roberts, quite a good one- but it does not help to demand that everybody should his share in the war. You have got to tell people exactly what to do, anything also is more or less rubbish. Therefore I was very pleased when Commander King-Hall gave a Fuel Target; perhaps it is no ideal solution, maybe, but it certainly is hundred times better than telling people to save fuel.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
unknown : unknown
'Had a nice night last night. Tommy Bloody Handley on the wireless again, read every book in the house. Too dark to walk to the library, bus every 45 minutes, next one too late for the pictures. Freedom is in peril they're telling ME!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
unknown : unknown
'According to what I've read everything seems to be going very satisfactorily, but not knowing the country, I've no idea what we're up against, but I think the Germans are still powerful, and there's plenty hard jobs ahead of us before we get them to crack.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown
unknown : unknown
'There are things going on in the village, but no one would ever say "could I stay with your kiddies while you go". I am quite happy I read decent books, and the wireless is quite a friend to me, but being a mother seems to cut one from contact with other people.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
: Reader's Digest
'I have two children, 2? years and 1 year old. Though in some respects I would not object to increasing my family, quite frankly I do not feel that my nerves will stand the pain of another childbirth for a good long while. ....I read in a "Readers Digest" some months past of a painless childbirth, which had been successfully introduced in America. An injection into the spine, I believe. Why cannot something of the kind be brought to this country and within the scope of all mothers.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical
Robert Service : Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
'The letter began with a keen criticism of Robert Service's "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man", which had just been sent out to him from England. He particularly resented, it seemed, a line in the poem called "Pilgrims" which described death as "the splendid release".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor unknown Print: Unknown
: [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in camp]
'A new officer has been censoring our letters the last two days. I fancy the C.O. gave orders that they were to be much more strict. He seems needlessly and brutally inquisitive, asking as he looks at the signatures, "Who's this fellow?" "Who's so-and-so?" "What woman's this, your sweetheart?" and so on, reading through every word of the letters, and laying down his dictum, "Nothing connected with your beliefs, peace, your position here, etc." — I hardly know what he expects one's friends to write about.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Manuscript: Letter
: [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in camp]
'The censoring here has become such an unpleasant occasion as almost to take away the joy of receiving letters — chiefest of guard-room amenities. The new officer brings up another with him to share the fun — reads carefully and slowly through every word, making obnoxious little noises or verbal comments and then passes it on to his colleague — a side-light on the phrase "an officer and a gentleman". He makes a sheep and goat pile. The latter he slowly and wrathfully tears up into little pieces.'
