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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
 
1800-1849'Loves Last Lesson' 'Teach me if you can- Forgetfulness!'Mary Groom L.E. LandonLove's Last LessonUnknown
1800-1849'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'Mary Shelley L.F. JauffretTHE TRAVELS OF ROLANDO Containing in a Supposed To...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando'Mary Shelley L.F. JauffretTravels of Rolando Containing in a Supposed Tour R...Print: Book
1900-1945 I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the fir...Arnold Bennett L.G. JohnsonArnold Bennett of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then she to read a little book concerning Speech in general, a translation late out of French, a most excellent piece as ever I read, proving a soul in man and all t...Elizabeth Pepys L.G. de CordemoyA philosophicall discourse concerning speech, conf...Print: Book
1900-1945After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of...Patricia Beer L.M. MontgomeryAnne of Green GablesPrint: Book
1900-1945After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of...Patricia Beer L.M. MontgomeryEmily of New MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'And then one day I found a book. It was a book called Emily of New Moon, about a little girl whose father died of consumption – that made a change, to start with - aft...Rosemary Sutcliff L.M. MontgomeryEmily of New MoonPrint: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Charles Evans L.P. JacksFrom the Human EndPrint: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Charles and Pattie StansfieldL.P. Jacks'The Magic Formula'Print: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Charles and Pattie StansfieldL.P. Jacks'Made out of Nothing'Print: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Howard R. Smith L.P. Jacks'Farmer Jeremy and his Ways'Print: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Ernest E. Unwin L.P. Jacks'Macbeth and Bangus upon the blasted heath'Print: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Ernest E. Unwin L.P. Jacks['Snarley Bob' tales]Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks too for the Chinese books. I have already looked at the introduction and certain sections of the "Lute [of Jade]". Very fine. Extraordinary subtle feeling I'll wr...Joseph Conrad L.[Lancelot] Cranmer-ByngA Lute of Jade: Being Selections from the Classica...Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Lady Barker's Letters from New Zealand ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Lady BarkerLetters from New ZealandPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Lady Beaumont how she received a letter from her: 'A few minutes before your letter arrived, William [Wordsworth] had set forward with his...William and Dorothy WordsworthLady Beaumont[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of h...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaighannotations to Samuel Richardson, Pamela
1700-1799"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of h...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaighannotations to Samuel Richardson, ClarissaManuscript: annotations in printed text
1700-1799'There was no need to bespeak my Patience, nor anything but my Gratitude, on reading such a Letter as you have favoured me with. Indeed I admire it; and have reason to pl...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaigh[letter]Manuscript: Letter


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