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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
 
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's The Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margin...Edward Pordage Thomas VaughanThe Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to dea...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Charlotte Bronte, 25 April 1850:

'Yesterday, I went along the shore past two wharves and several warehouses on a st. where I ...		Mary Taylor The Manchester ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her...Chaim Bermant n/aThe Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Harry Emerson FosdickThe Manhood of the MasterPrint: Book
1850-1899George Gissing in diary, 9 August 1894: "'Read Hall Caine's 'The Manxman', which has just appeared in 1 vol., instead of 3."George Gissing Hall CaineThe ManxmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Extremely hot even at Therapia. Back at 7 and dined at home and read the "Marriage of William Ashe".' Gertrude Bell Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) WardThe Marriage of William Ashe Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last m...		Bruce Dilks Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Masque of AnarchyUnknown
1850-1899Henry James to Wiliam James, 29 November 1888: " ... I have had in my hands the earlier sheets of the Master of Ballantrae, the new novel ... [R. L. Stevenson] is about t...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonThe Master of BallantraeManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in...Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis StevensonThe Master of BallantraePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1500-1599'Next to [John] Balgrave's modest prefatory poem [in "The Mathematical Jewel" (1585)] "The Authour in his own defence", [Gabriel] Harvey comments: "An Youth, & no Univers...Gabriel Harvey John BlagraveThe Mathematical Jewel, Shewing the making, and mo...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 2 December 1801: 'I read the Tale of Phoebus and the Crow ...'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Maunciple's TalePrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett Thomas HardyThe Mayor of CasterbridgePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then down to Woolwich Deptford to look after things...All the way down and up, reading of "The Mayor of Quinborough", a simple play.'Samuel Pepys Thomas MiddletonThe Mayor of QuinboroughPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing missing soldiers] and do the motherly to Tommies as you ...Frank Vicary Goldsworthy Lowes DickinsonThe Meaning of GoodPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Harry Emerson FosdickThe Meaning of PrayerPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition (1682); notes from the 'Epistle to the Whi...Edward Pordage John DrydenThe Medall. A Satyre Against SeditionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just been reading a second time Dr. Mantell's 'Medals of Creation', and do so admire the spirit in which it is written exceedingly; this, and his 'Wonders of Ge...Eliza Ellis Gideon Algernon MantellThe Medals of Creation; or, First Lessons in Geolo...Print: Book
1850-1899?I have waited to thank you for your book till I had read it & write now ? before having quite finished ? because I can talk best with my pen & would rather anticipate to...Leslie Stephen Herbert FisherThe Medieval EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leather: it defeated me. Words...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marcus AureliusThe Meditations of Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Allen TateThe Mediterranean and Other PoemsManuscript: Unknown


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