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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
 
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; [text] 'I stood beside thy lowly grave;/ Spring-odou...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans]The grave of a poetessPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Graves of a Household' [transcript of text]Emma Bowly F. D. HemansThe Graves of a HouseholdUnknown
1800-1849'Graves of a Household' 'They grew in beauty side by side, ...' 'Mrs Hemans'Bowly groupFelicia Dorothea HemansThe Graves of a HouseholdUnknown
1800-1849["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.'Mary Russell Mitford Caroline CliveThe Great DroughtPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'George Eliot [pseud] William Makepeace ThackerayThe Great Hoggarty DiamondPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[A. A.] Milne ... [became] a decided anti-militarist after reading Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" (1910) ...'Alan Alexander Milne Norman AngellThe Great IllusionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exci...Gerald Moore E. Phillips OppenheimThe Great ImpersonationPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even finished reading of Horneck's "Great Law of Consideration", which I think a very good subject, and I am thoroughly persuaded that the only motive the author ...Thomas Turner Anthony HorneckThe great law of consideration; or, a discourse, w...Print: Book
1900-1945'I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916] I do want you to realise that intelligent people here, th...Arnold Bennett Patrick MacGillThe Great PushPrint: Book
1900-1945'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow...Ruth Slate Christabel PankhurstThe Great ScourgePrint: Book
1800-1849'Extract from Murphy's Grecian Daughter' 'Filial Affection'member of Carey/Maingay groupArthur MurphyThe Grecian DaughterUnknown
1800-1849The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the Greeks in general were.Anne Lister Oliver GoldsmithThe Grecian HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'.George Eliot [pseud.] Charles KingsleyThe Greek HeroesPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s Essays, and a glorious book of critical essays by [J.] A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no ...Wilfred Owen J. A. K. ThomsonThe Greek Tradition: Essays in the Reconstruction ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William VincentThe Greek Verb Analysed. An HypothesisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fine day. Gym balances almost done. No letters. Read the Green Flag by Doyle. Ev Bridge. Play improving.'William Thomas Arthur Conan DoyleThe Green FlagPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already he was reading as a writer reads, with a view to us...John Masefield Herman MelvilleThe Green HandPrint: Book
1900-1945'"The Green Mirror" reached me alright.[...] I didn't write to you about it as I expected almost every day to have you here for a talk about that and other things.'Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleThe Green MirrorPrint: Book
1700-1799Read after supper the contempt of the clergy.Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1700-1799Summerhouse reading 'contempt of the clergy' till 1/2 past 5.Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book


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