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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'[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read...Bonar Thompson James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read...Bonar Thompson Andre Gide[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Charlotte Mew's poem] "The Forest Road" is almost impossible to follow; Dr Scott [husband of Mew's friend Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] read it and said it was so deeply ...Dr Scott Charlotte Mew"The Forest Road"Unknown
1850-1899'[Chester Armstrong's] political consciousness was awakened when his father, a self-help Radical, read aloud the weekly paper, which brought home the horrors of the Afgha... [weekly paper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'[Conrad]admitted he was a Victorian, and that most of his reading was in nineteenth- century authors. He had [...] read Poe in French. He was fond of Emerson and Whit...Joseph Conrad Edgar Allan PoeunspecifiedPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Scott. Scott responded to the present,] to say the tru...Walter Scott George Crabbe[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Scott. Scott responded to the present,] to say the tru...Walter Scott's childrenGeorge Crabbe[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have praised me into some Reputation for writing Lyrical V...George Crabbe Francis Jeffrey[review of Crabbe's 'Tales from the Hall']Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation...Edmund Burke Herbert CroftLife of YoungPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation...James Boswell Herbert CroftLife of YoungPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies Charles Lamb Print: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies William Hazlitt Print: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies John RuskinThe Crown of Wild olive: Three Lectures on Work, T...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies Karl Marx Print: Book


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