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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'And of all the men who write today it is only Hueffer who writes for love[...]. I took up the "H[eart]of [the]C[ountry]" which was lying there and opening it at hazard I...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Heart of the Country: A Survey of Modern Land ...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Ford's] "The Heart of the Country" is out today and a very charming piece of writing it is.' Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Heart of the Country: A Survey of Modern LandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about the fifth time) "Ivanhoe" and "The Heart of the Mid-...John Mitchel Walter ScottThe Heart of the Mid-LothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Heaven was Cloudless' [transcript of poem, no author given]Mary Groom Bernard BartonThe Heaven was CloudlessUnknown
1800-1849Tuesday, 1 August 1826: 'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me about a dozen and dipping into them scrambled throug...Walter Scott Wentworth SmithThe Hector of Germany, or The PalsgravePrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent a good deal of to day in reading "The Heir at Law" a Comedy proposed to be played by the Garrick Club. I have expressed an opinion that it is very suitable.'John Buckley Castieau George ColemanThe Heir at LawPrint: Book
1850-1899'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.'John Buckley Castieau George ColemanThe Heir at LawPrint: Book
1850-1899'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.'Mr Neild George ColemanThe Heir at LawPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wedding-bells were the usual end to our stories, of which "The Heir of Redclyffe" was a fair sample. Needless to say I had no notion of any difficulties after the bells ...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Heir of RedclyffePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899" ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe."Dante Gabriel Rossetti Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"The Prime Minister's daughter Violet Asquith read ... [The Heir of Redclyffe] seven times 'from cover to cover -- never failing to cry at the end' ..."Violet Asquith Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Margaret OliphantThe Heir-Presumptive and the Heir-ApparentPrint: Book
1700-1799'During his holidays he found on his mother's dressing-table an old torn copy of Gerard's "Herbal", having the names and figures of some of the plants with which he had f...Joseph Banks John GerardThe Herball or General Historie of PlantsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Muir] wrote to Stephen Spender in the summer of 1944 that Bowra's book had made him realise that he had been writing symbolist poetry himself for years without realisin...Edwin Muir C. Maurice BowraThe Heritage of SymbolismPrint: Book
1800-1849'Highland Hospitality' 'I once resolved to leave London for a little time [...]' 'Hermit in London'.E.E.R. Felix MacDonoghThe Hermit in London; or Sketches in English MannePrint: Book
1800-1849'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of "Robinson Crusoe", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels,...Christopher Thomson Peter LonguevilleThe hermit Philip QuarllPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 10th September Today my friend Pat bought Kingsley?s ?Heroes? for Monica. I am reading it myself and then it goes away, to be out on her shelf, which I am pl...Gerald Moore Charles KingsleyThe HeroesPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad Charles KingsleyThe Heroes: Greek FairytalesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which sh...Jane Austen Eaton BarrettThe HeroinePrint: Book


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