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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'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul [n/a]The NationPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; the "Nation" ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone The NationPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains...Virginia Woolf The NationPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'One of the books I read then for the first time was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres [sic], who had been ...William Henry Hudson Gilbert WhiteThe Natural History and Antiquities of SelbornePrint: Book
1900-1945One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The...Robert Stark Gilbert WhiteThe Natural History and Antiquities of SelbornePrint: Book
1850-1899'Headache. Read Lucrezia Floriani. We are reading White's History of Selborne in the evening'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesGilbert WhiteThe Natural History of SelbornePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 9 April, 1797: 'Mr Estlin has sent me his sermon — a most superb copy — tho not I have not the one he sent — for Johnsons man could not ...Robert Southey John Prior EstlinThe Nature and Causes of Atheism, Pointed Out in a...Print: Unknown
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847: 'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writers at all -- especially [italics]Fichte[end italics...Joseph Arnould Johann Gottlieb FichteThe Nature and Vocation of the ScholarPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgThe Nature of the Intercourse between the Soul and...Print: Book
1900-1945'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more possible to me and therefore less wonderful. They deg...Edward Morgan Forster A. S. EddingtonThe Nature of the Physical WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'Found much edification in reading Doctor Owen on Indwelling sin in the heart of a believer. I hope to read it often, that I may transcribe it on my memory and note the m...Arabella Davies John OwenThe Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevalency of the R...Print: 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 Richard WeymouthThe Naval, Military and Village Hymn BookPrint: Book
1800-1849Complete transcript of Cowper's poem.Anon William CowperThe Negro's complaintUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte:

'"I recollect [...] [Bronte's] saying how acutely she dreaded a charge of plagiarism when, after she had...		Charlotte Brontë Frederika BremerThe NeighboursPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'Ah! dearest love, Frederika Bremer! I did read half "The Neighbours," and really you are the only person...Mary Russell Mitford Frederika BremerThe Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day LifePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 December 1842: 'My thoughts have lately been of Frederica Bremer?s "Neighbours" instead of my own?I mean of the very charm...Elizabeth Barrett Frederika BremerThe Neighbours: A Story of Everyday LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Celia Burrow Mary WebbThe Neighbour’s ChildrenUnknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 October 1849:

'The perusal of Harriet Martineau's "Eastern Life" has afforded me great pleasure; and I have found a deep ...		Charlotte Brontë James Anthony FroudeThe Nemesis of FaithPrint: Book
1900-1945'Here I read the three-year-old newspapers which described the unusual murder trial, and studied a "background" book, "The Neuroses in War", published by the Tavistock Cl...Vera Brittain Emanuel MillerThe Neuroses in WarPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am afraid the New Age is rather poor just now— several of its best writers are busy in the Army. But it is the only paper I know that is full of fresh ideas; and ...Herbert Edward Read The New AgePrint: Serial / periodical


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