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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'[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt], [Francis] Thompson ignored the scenery and was "wh...Francis Thompson The GlobePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'When I left my home for the first time, I suddenly passed out of the excitements of my Windsor life into the school-boy's ordinary abstraction from the outer world. I he...Charles Knight The GlobePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Houlston [Harriet Martineau's publisher] wrote to ask for another story of somewhat more substance and bulk [than the first two he had taken from her]. My "Globe" newsp...Harriet Martineau The GlobePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849"My beloved time of day was when the cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert,".."and again at a subsequent time when I took to newspaper reading very heartily"...Harriet Martineau The Globe (Newspaper)Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron [...] Who admiredhim as a man? yet 'he is gone forev...Anne Lister The Globe and TravellerPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Ethel C. Stevens Mary WebbThe Golden ArrowPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Henry Marriage Wallis Mary WebbThe Golden ArrowPrint: BookUnknown
1850-189922 November 1854: 'After dusk we adjourned [...] to Ivor's rooms, where I crouched by the fire, feeling chilled and poorly, and betook myself to my needlework. Ivor re...Ivor Guest The Golden BeetlePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Marcus Aurelius The Golden Book of Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1900-1945Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,...Joan Evans Sir James George FrazerThe Golden BoughPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'Leonard Woolf J. G. FrazerThe Golden BoughPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of my father [...] At the request of Watts, my father r...Hallam Tennyson J. G. FrazerThe Golden BoughPrint: Book
1900-1945'...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hardworking review for her...'Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Golden BowlPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905: 'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent us or we him? He uses [italics]all[end italics] our...Leonard Woolf Henry JamesThe Golden BowlPrint: Book
1900-1945'The weather is perfectly ideal and it’s a country holiday to be here [i.e., picnicking in a meadow 1 mile from Talbot House]; the only things we left behind of val...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton Walter BesantThe Golden ButterflyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 4th October ?The Golden Glory? ( ? ) A great yarn this.' Gerald Moore unknownThe Golden GloryPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Your verdict upon Macdonald's tale was worthy of so shrewd and serious a gentleman as yourself...' (2) 'And talking about books I am surprised that you don't say m...Clive Staples Lewis George MacdonaldThe Golden KeyPrint: Book
1850-1899"Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden legend, beginning 'It is Lucifer, son of the air,' and so on. 'Since God put him there, he is God's min...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Golden LegendPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Golden LegendPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem...V.W. Garratt Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.)The Golden TreasuryPrint: Book


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