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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
 
1850-1899'I prefer to say nothing critical about John Buchan's story'. Hence follow more than twenty lines of quite strong and pointed, almost entirely negative, criticism.Joseph Conrad John BuchanThe Far IslandsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have at length had an opportunity to read "The Farm Servant". At first I thought it wasn?t going to be anything very particular, but it began to hold me soon afterwar...Arnold Bennett E.H. AnstrutherThe Farm ServantPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the July of 1918 a copy of "The Farmer's Bride" arrived in [Sydney] Cockerell's vast daily post, with a stiff little note from Charlotte [Mew] [...] No worry [...] ab...Sydney Cockerell Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlott...Wilfred Scawen Blunt Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlott...Siegfried Sassoon Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlott...A. E. Housman Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1916 one of the tasks of the second Mrs Hardy was to read aloud in the evenings at their Dorchester home, Max Gate, to the old great man whom she so carefully tended....Florence Hardy Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: Book
1800-1849'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispensations of providence... those kinds of books were o...Joseph Mayett The Farmer's FiresidePrint: Book
1800-1849'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...'Thomas Green Robert BloomfieldThe farmer?s boyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sufferings of the post-horse... from Bloomfields 'the Farmers Boy'...Poplar 7th May 1832. T.W.M.T.W.M. Robert BloomfieldThe Farmers BoyUnknown
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Ellen Thorneycroft FowlerThe FarringdonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 6 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt began reading another of Massinger's plays [having finished "The Duke of Milan"], the "Fatal Dowry," fr...John B. S. Morritt Philip MassingerThe Fatal DowryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Among the eminent women who sought my [Harriet Martineau's] acquaintance by letter [in the early 1830s], and whom I have never seen, [is] [...] Miss Kelty, the author of...Harriet Martineau Miss KeltyThe Favourite of NaturePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the best "Session" we have ... 'George Gordon Lord Byron Leigh HuntThe Feast of the PoetsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[By 1837] American politics had for many years occupied Grote's attention, and engaged his sympathy. He was a great admirer of the "Federalist," the pages of which, he...George Grote The FederalistPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917: 'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't docked 2/- from your £ for it: an undistinguished little...Edward Morgan Forster The Feet of the Young MenPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool The Fellowship Hymn-BookPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?It would be necessary to notice here, when we profess to give a sketch of the progress of novel or romance writing, as indication of and connected with the state of mann...Charles Robert Maturin Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799'"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do you not think, however her heroine over-acts her par...Samuel Richardson Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799'"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do you not think, however her heroine over-acts her par...Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book


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