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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'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...Philip Inman Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...Philip Inman Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...Philip Inman Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Pilkington reproduces her poem 'The Petition of the Birds', written for her fiance] This little poetical Essay met with more Applause than it really merited, on Account...Matthew Pilkington Laetitia Van LewenPetition of the Birds, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be ho...Laetitia Pilkington Henry St John Bolingbroke[letters to Swift]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be ho...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][letters to Swift from various correspondents]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be ho...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander Pope[letters to Swift]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'[Piozzi] brought me an Italian sonnet written in his praise by Marco Capello, which I instantly translated of course: but He prudent Creature, insisted on my burning it,...Hester Lynch Thrale Marco Capello[sonnet about Piozzi]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[present at tea on June 12th was] the Reverend Herbert Croft, who, I am afraid, was somewhat mortified by Dr. Johnson's not being highly pleased with some "Family Discou...Samuel Johnson Herbert Croft[Family Discourses]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to know. I discovered that Ruskin was not so very many ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1700-1799'[quotation from Johnson's 'Life of Edmund Smith', regarding Gilbert Walmsley] His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His a...Gilbert Walmsley  Print: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Ebeneezer Elliott Print: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Henry Taylor Print: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Philip James Bailey Print: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Lewis Morris Print: Book
1700-1799'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, sh...Joseph Towers Samuel JohnsonFalse Alarm, ThePrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, sh...Joseph Towers Samuel JohnsonPatriot, ThePrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, sh...Joseph Towers Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by Joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, sh...Joseph Towers Samuel JohnsonThoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkl...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w...Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book


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