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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
 
1850-1899'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.George Eliot [pseud] [various]The LeaderPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.George Eliot [pseud] variousThe LeaderPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'soon after I took a walk as far as the Yorick. Purves was there & we had a little chat. I looked through "The Leader" & then came away home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine into R.T. more closely [...] I came home with my book, which does not seem a ver...Virginia Woolf Rosalind MurrayThe Leading NotePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh ...Edward Morgan Forster Rosalind MurrayThe Leading NotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Francis E. Pollard Henrik IbsenThe League of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Reginald H. Robson Henrik IbsenThe League of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		George Burrow Henrik IbsenThe League of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Howard Smith Henrik IbsenThe League of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Charles E. Stansfield Henrik IbsenThe League of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Mary E. Robson Henrik IbsenThe League of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Dorothy Brain Henrik IbsenThe League of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Alfred Rawlings Henrik IbsenThe League of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Edgar Castle Henrik IbsenThe League of YouthPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer...Bronte Family The Leeds IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a little while then went back to Northgate [...] Isabella...Anne Lister The Leeds MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer...Bronte Family The Leeds MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'1888. At Easter Miss Mary Anderson [actress] was with us again and he [Tennyson] read to her, whom he admired much, and held to be "the flower of girlhood," "The Leper's...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Leper's BrideManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Sunday 2 October 1932: 'I am [...] reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration. Not that he & I have too much in common -- the same pressure to be ourselves: so that...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceThe Letters of D. H. LawrencePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928: 'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell, nephew] came and painted the gramophone and after ...Leonard Woolf Dorothy OsborneThe Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William TemplePrint: Book


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