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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'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth...Percy Wall n/aThe FreethinkerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Philip CarrThe French at HomePrint: Book
1850-1899At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o...Elizabeth Bryson Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe...Emrys Daniel Hughes Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds...Emmeline Pankhurst Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
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1850-1899		From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'During our cruise [on The Sunbeam, Lord Brassey's yacht] my father drew upon his wonderful memory for some of...Henry Hallam Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849'It has most glaring faults as a historical style, but in spite of its obscurity, barbaric whirl of words, & the still graver charge of a certain indifferentism or fatali...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Our drive with Carlyle was interesting ... he talked about a number of things, especially about his 'French Revolution', which I happened to be reading.'William Darwin Thomas CarlyleThe French Revolution
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 Thomas CarlyleThe French Revolution: A HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 May 1845: 'The "Memoires de Fleure," was made into an agreeable English book, with certain abbreviations, by The...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett The French Stage and the French People, as illustr...Print: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve got a lovely little book—The Freudian Wish [Edwin B. Holt, 1915]—the pathology of thought, etc. Also a fine volume of poems by D. H. Lawrence.’Herbert Edward Read Edwin Bissell HoltThe Freudian WishPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 28 February [1810], on departure of Sara Hutchinson after four years with Wordsworths: 'Coleridge most of all will miss her, as she h...Sara Hutchinson Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Friend, A Literary, Moral and Political Weekly...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge of the Subject by a covert Attack or two on Some of ...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonThe Friends: a PoemUnknown
1900-1945‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with whom I usually spent the...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rudyard KiplingThe Fringes of the FleetPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

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7. We then listened to a nu...		Janet Rawlings Manferd KyberThe Frivolous Mouse [Die Leichtsinnige Maus]Print: Book
1850-1899'The library was wonderfully interesting. They have the only complete MS of Aristophanes, of the 10th century, from which all the editions have been printed, Mr Hogarth r...Gertrude Bell AristophanesThe FrogsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Henry James to Edith Wharton, 24 November 1907: 'I have read "The Fruit [of the Tree", in copy sent by Wharton][...] with acute appreciation -- the liveliest admiration a...Henry James Edith WhartonThe Fruit of the TreePrint: Book
1600-1699'In the afternoon upon the Quarter-deck, the Doctor told Mr North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitlesse Precaution": an exceeding pretty story and worth my get...Paul ScarronThe Fruitless PrecautionPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so home, where I fell to read "The fruitlesse precaution" (a book formerly recommended by Dr Clerke at sea to me), which I read in bed till I had made an end of it a...Samuel Pepys Paul ScarronThe Fruitlesse PrecautionPrint: Book


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