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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'Wrote to Maysie. Read Jungle Book.'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle BookPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle Books Print: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of Burn's "Justice".'Thomas Turner Richard BurnThe Justice of the Peace and Parish OfficerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have just read The Kaiser and his English Relations by Benson. Most interesting.'Vere Hodgson Edward Frederic BensonThe Kaiser and English RelationsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include anecdotes on pigmies from Ernest Hubert Lewis Schwarz, The Kalahari and its Native Races (1928) ...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest Hubert Lewis SchwarzThe Kalahari and its Native RacesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1842: 'Mr Kenyon called yesterday [...] and he left Lady Blessington's Annual [...] The annual is fuller of tr...Elizabeth Barrett John Kenyon, Walter Savage Landor, Theodosia GarrowThe Keepsake for 1843Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851:

'I am glad "The Kicklebury's" is likely to be successful; it has that interest and that pith without whic...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayThe Kickeleburys on the Rhine: A new Picture-Book ...Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851:

'"The King of the Golden River" is a divine fairy tale. Richard Doyle has done it scant justice in his il...		Charlotte Brontë John RuskinThe King of the Golden RiverPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading on board the life of Pasteur, provided by Sylvia. It would interest you both, especially you, for now that I come to think of it wriggling germs are ...Gertrude Bell Pearson ChoateThe King who went on Strike Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficul...Leonard Woolf H. W. Fowler and F. G. FowlerThe King's EnglishPrint: Book
1800-1849In journal entry for Wednesday 25 May, Claire Clairmont transcribes stanzas 28 and 29 from Canto II of The King's Quair, by James I of Scotland.Claire Clairmont King James I of ScotlandThe King's QuairPrint: Book
1850-1899On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's Tragedy" ...'Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel RossettiThe King's TragedyUnknown
1600-1699'This day I find in the news-Booke that Rogr. Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the towne, the first place that we hear of to have made their choice yet.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]The Kingdomes IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'This day in the news-booke, I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give in, upon examinacion, to a Justice of the peace.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]The Kingdomes IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'I read Palamon and Arcite.'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Before tea I sate 2 hours in the parlour. Read part of The Knight's Tale with exquisite delight.'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's TalePrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Geoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau mentions using 'Sale's Koran', borrowed from a public library, in preparation for entering a Central Unitarian Assocation competition for the best essay...Harriet Martineau The KoranPrint: Book
1850-1899'I came away rather early for I had a lesson at 5. My Pundit was extremely pleased with me, he kept congratulating me on my proficiency in the Arabic tongue! I think his ...Gertrude Bell The KoranPrint: Book
1900-1945During my final year at school I was selected to represent the school in a competition held at the Browning Hall, Walworth for elocution prizes. I recited "The Laboratory...Robert BrowningThe LaboratoryManuscript: Sheet


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