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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'It's ["The Inn of Tranquillity"] wholly excellent and certainly fascinating.[...] Of course I had read many of the papers before.' Hence follow ten lines of praise for t...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Inn of TranquillityPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, Th...questionaire respondent Mark TwainThe Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progres...Print: Book
1850-1899'The Innocents Abroad'Sarah Good Mark TwainThe Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progres...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith William GodwinThe Inquier: Reflections on Education, Manners and...Print: Book
1800-1849'The Inspiartion of Love'. 'Moore'.Mary Groom Thomas MooreThe Inspiration of LoveUnknown
1850-1899"A Victorian edition of a legal classic, the Institutes of Justinian, shows signs of careful and laborious study, with an elaborate system of marking (underlining ... lin...anon Justinian The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduc...Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell me what merit you find in Henry James. I have disa...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyThe Insulted and InjuredPrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Philip Gilbert HamertonThe Intellectual LifePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's writing, he beginning this week; and makes methink bu...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [L'Estrange]The IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'I met this noon with Dr Burnett, who told me, and I find in the news-book this week that he posted upon the Change, that whoever did spread that report that instead of t...Samuel Pepys [n/a]The IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate SexPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin". Very fresh mind - he at once joins the company of those whom we wish we could have met. Such a distinctive Fren...William Soutar Paul GauguinThe Intimate Journals of Paul GauguinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones George A. Birmingham (pseud.)The Inviolable SanctuaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'23rd February, Wednesday. This evening after dinner, I flitted from the splendour of the ?Grand? to the hospital-coldness of the little Hotel Cronstadt in the Quartier ...Gerald Moore H.G. WellsThe Invisible ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is your connection with Burselem & the potteries, Burs...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe Invisible ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thanks ever so much for "The Invisible Man". I shall keep him a few more days longer. Frankly--it is uncommonly fine.[Hence follows a long paragraph of appreciative com...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Invisible ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'I hold "Ipané". Hoch! Hurra! Vivat! May you live! And now I know I am virtuous because I read and had no pang of jealousy. There are things in that volume that are like ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamThe IpanéPrint: Book
1700-1799The Iris came this morning, in it there was the following article: at Paris there is proposals for publishing by subscription Parisgraphy, or a language that may be read ...Joseph Hunter The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'We got the "Iris"; it contains an exceedingly humourous account of the first campaign of our Loyal Independant Sheffield Volunteers to Workshop, which I wrote out amongs...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. [...9-12 at the warehouse] 12 to 1 came to my dinner, read part of the "Iris". Mr H. Hall dined with us.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper


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