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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
 
1700-1799?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon hanging up, and another going to be put on the stocks; ...Maria Edgeworth William NicholsonThe First Principles of ChemistryPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Read Wells’ article in today’s Mail. Most important. I enclose it.’Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsThe First-Class Air Fighter: Is He Going to Be the...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Wednesday, 10 June 1829: 'I have been reading over the Five Days of St. Albans [sic], very much [quotes Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I.72] extra moenia flammantia mundi ...Walter Scott William MudfordThe Five Nights of St AlbansPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 12 June 1829: 'After dinner I wrote to Walter, Charles, Lockhart and John Murray and took a screed of my novel so concluded the evening idly enough.'Walter Scott William MudfordThe Five Nights of St AlbansPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 8-9 February 1795: 'I have been reading the four first numbers of the Flagellant — they are all I possess — my dearest Gros...Robert Southey Robert Southey (ed.)The FlagellantPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945It was after our second family holiday in the West Highlands of Scotland, when I was thirteen, that someone recommended that we should all read 'The Flight of the Heron' ...Patricia Beer D.K. BrosterThe Flight of the HeronPrint: Book
1900-1945My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...Harriet Beer D.K. BrosterThe Flight of the HeronPrint: Book
1900-1945Sheila read 'The Flight of the Heron' too, but was less impressed. I think she realised how I felt; she once teased me about it.Sheila Beer D.K. BrosterThe Flight of the HeronPrint: Book
1800-1849'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever writte...John Clare James MaddockThe Florist's DirectoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
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6. Celia Burrow read Th...		Celia Burrow Rudyard KiplingThe FlowersUnknown
1800-1849'Drove out to Ledbury with Commeline, Ann, C, and M.N Junior [...]Having read Kitt's [NB Kett's] Flowers of Wit I pronounce them to be mere daisies. Everywhere there are ...Benjamin Newton Henry KettThe flowers of wit, or a choice collection of bonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. After you went away I re-read your Fog on the River p...Joseph Conrad H.|Henry] M.[Major] TomlinsonThe FogPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Just before leaving Paris I read the first instalment of "F. of G." in Pearson?s & thought it extremely good, barring a few minime verbal infelicities. It cost me 2 fr...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe Food of the GodsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry BrookeThe Fool of Quality OR The History of Henry Earl o...Print: Book
1700-1799"On 7 March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] remarked that 'I am now reading the Fool of Quality which amuses me exceedingly.'"Dorothy Wordsworth Henry BrookeThe Fool of Quality; or, the History of Henry Earl...Print: Book
Transcription of William Wordsworth, 'The Force of Prayer' appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 18 October 1807.Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthThe Force of PrayerManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I would like you to read a little book called "The Forerunner", by Merejkowski, published by Constable. It is about Leonardo da Vinci, and though there is a lot of bosh...Donald William Alers Hankey Dimitri MerejkowskiThe Forerunner, the romance of Leonardo da VinciPrint: Book
1900-1945'I feel compunctions not having written before about "The Forest" — a piece of work to which I came with the greatest interest. [...]. Anyway its a fine thing.' Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe ForestPrint: playscript
1850-1899E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home next week. I have just read James' "A portrait of a...Edward Morgan Forster Maurice HewlettThe Forest Lovers: A RomancePrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring forth the hidden might/ Which hath lain bedded in the si...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe forest sanctuaryPrint: Unknown


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