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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(1) 'Unfortunately we have not got a complete set of Scott here - only odd Everyman copies.... What is "Guy Mannering" like? The alternative title of "The Astrologer" s...Clive Staples Lewis Walter ScottGuy Mannering; or, The AstrologerPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'We have all been plunged in misery here for the last week because no one can remember the context or the author of a quotation that we all know as well as our own ...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling[Untitled]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945(1) 'With the Chaucer I am most awfully bucked: it is in the very best Everyman style — lovely paper, strong boards, and — aren't you envious — not one but two bits of ...Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'You say "Arethusa" is lovely: have you bought it or got a copy from the library? In any case I am very glad you have started it. Isn't Omobono a lovely character, ...Clive Staples Lewis Francis Marion CrawfordArethusaPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Your verdict upon Macdonald's tale was worthy of so shrewd and serious a gentleman as yourself...' (2) 'And talking about books I am surprised that you don't say m...Clive Staples Lewis George MacdonaldThe Golden KeyPrint: Book
1900-1945(1)'What is nicer than to get a book — doubtful both about reading matter and edition, and then to find both are topping?.... I have just had this pleasure in Sidney's ...Clive Staples Lewis Philip SidneyThe Prose Works of Sir Philip SidneyPrint: Book
1900-1945. . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Towns]; he writes complaining that Bennett makes 'an in...George Sturt Arnold BennettAnna of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1850-1899.'.. poor old Jack Sheppard. I doubt not Ainsworth meant to be moral.'Robert Louis Stevenson Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1900-1945.. . . I have no prejudice against the young, rather the reverse, and yet I am looking in vain for a really good novel by that generation, and 'Men Like Gods', with all i...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMen Like GodsPrint: Book
1600-1699... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest_, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to s...Elizabeth Baker Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1850-1899... [H. G.] Wells relearnt French by reading Voltaire for himself in the early 1880s and through visits to France ...'H. G. Wells VoltaireunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place unknown variousPrint: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place unknown [many magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place unknown, histories of Greece and RomePrint: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place unknown, translated works by Greek and Roman write...Print: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place Tobias George Smollett Print: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place Henry Fielding Print: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place Robertsonunknown [Robertson's works?]Print: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place David Hume[Hume's Essays]Print: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place translations from French writersPrint: Book


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