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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"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found it impossible ...Edmund Gosse F.T PalgraveThe Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I don?t know whether the translation from the Russian, "The Golovleff Family", (published by Knopf out your way) is any good, but the book is great. I read it twice in ...Arnold Bennett Mikhail Evgrafovich SaltuikovThe Golovleff FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Howard Smith Emily and/or Anne BrontëThe Gondal poemsUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
    A. G Joselin in the chair.

[...]

5. F. E. Pollard then undertook...		Muriel Stevens Matthew ArnoldThe Good Shepherd with the KidUnknown
1900-1945'I was writing something so I refrained from looking at "The Good Soldier" (according to my time-honoured practice) till I got a few pages out of the way.' Hence follow...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Good SoldierPrint: Book
1700-1799'Was much instructed in the duty of believing by reading Marshall's Gospel mystery of Sanctification. I have great cause to be daily thankful for the discovery of a free...Arabella Davies Walter MarshallThe Gospel Mystery of SanctificationPrint: Book
1700-1799[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748: 'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fielding's proof, which relates to Mrs. Teachum's method o...J[?ane] Collier Sarah FieldingThe GovernessPrint: Unknown, In proof
1700-1799'I read The Government of the Country by D. O'Bryan. N.B. a rebellious book.'Frances Hamilton D O'BryanThe Government of the CountryPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde John Henry NewmanThe Grammar of AscentPrint: Book
1800-1849'My Dear Sir, As you have long since ceased to be ?a colt? in the periodical paddock, you will not be surprised at my not having been able to find room in the next No. f...Charles Dickens Thomas GaspeyThe Grand JurorManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe GrandmotherPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Club. There were several members present most of them engaged with the Periodicals lately arrived by the mail. The Graphic had a fine coloured...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The GraphicPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerisque”. In the latter I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have...Robert Louis Stevenson The GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The GraphicPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Club again in the evening & had a look over the [Home?] papers. The Illustrated & Graphic are full of Engravings relating to "Thanksgiving Day" ... to the Ti...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]The GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Went out with May to pay bills when snow & sleet stopped. She left me at Reading Room where I read Times & daily mirror & Graphic.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook The GraphicPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1700-1799Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late.Gertrude Savile James ShirleyThe Gratefull Servant. A Comedie...Print: Book
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was...Thomas Carter [unknown]The GravePrint: Book
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Robert BlairThe GravePrint: Book


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