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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'I wonder did you notice the article on Nietzsche in last Sunday's Times Literary Supplement, which demonstrates that although we have been told to regard Nietzsche as ...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]The Nietzschean WayPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'That Conrad book is magnificent.' Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradThe Nigger of the NarcissusPrint: Book
1850-1899'My Dear Wells, I owe you a good turn for pointing out Conrad to me. I remember I got his first book, Almayer?s Folly, to review with a batch of others from Unwin, & fee...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradThe Nigger of the NarcissusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".'Mary Shelley Francis BeaumontThe Night Walker, [or, the little Thiefe]Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 27th. [...] Read Noble Gentleman of Beaumont & Fletcher.' Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherThe Noble GentlemanPrint: Book
1700-1799Read after supper 'The Noble Slaves'. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile Penelope AubinThe Noble Slaves: Or, the Lives and Adventures ofPrint: Book
1700-1799Home past 10. 'Noble Slaves'. Bed past 12.Gertrude Savile Penelope AubinThe Noble Slaves: or, The Lives and Adventures ofPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: '"The North American Review" [containing reviews of the Bronte sisters' works in which the authors are presu...Charlotte Bronte The North American ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 16 August 1849: '"The North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about E. Wyndham, J. Eyre, and F....Charlotte Bronte The North British ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even read several political papers called "The North Briton", which are wrote by John Wilkes Esq., member for Aylesbury in Bucks, for the writing of which he has ...Thomas Turner John WilkesThe North BritonPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening'James Boswell [n/a]The North BritonPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Briton" from the publisher of it, Mr Kearsley in Ludga...James Boswell [n/a]The North BritonPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799May 24th. My black mare fell down and threw me over her head, but God be praysed I got not the least harm. I rode a slow trot reading the Northampton news paper [...] it ...William Coe The Northampton MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899From Tennyson's notes on Demeter and Other Poems: 'A lady tells me that when she read "The Northern Cobbler" at a village entertainment, the drunkard of the village, o...anon Alfred TennysonThe Northern CobblerPrint: Book
1850-1899Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864: 'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now [...] "Enoch" continues the perfect thing I thought...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonThe Northern Farmer Print: Book
1850-1899W. G. Clark, on a reader of Tennyson's 'The Northern Farmer': '[?W. H.] Thompson has been staying at Fryston, where he met a Mr Creyke, a Yorkshireman, with a talent f...anon Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerManuscript: Unknown, In hand of 'Mr Creyke.'
1850-1899'May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster] knowing my father's love of science had asked maste...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerPrint: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "The Northern Muse", arranged by John Buchan. A fine anthology - yet one must admit that our greatest poems are ballads by unknown men. If a choice had ...William Soutar John BuchanThe Northern MusePrint: Book
1900-1945'So after dinner they settled down by the fire with The Northern Muse, Betty van Dusen and Tweedsmuir reading poems alternately; rather, she read from the book, but when ...John Buchan The Northern Muse: An Anthology of Scots Vernacula...Print: Book


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