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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‘Please O please try and get last Sunday’s "Observer" (June 12th or thereabouts). The leading article is a perfect exhibition of pusillanimous twaddling and a kind of...Ivor Bertie Gurney The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘Have you seen any reviews of Maeterlinck’s latest book, and if so, what do you think of the ideas it sets forth? There was a glorious piece of writing in last week’s...Ivor Bertie Gurney The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the "Observer" one [a review of "My Life in Sarawak"] on Saturday, and that I do like because it confirms my own opinion of the book. I daresay it was by Si...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Boys finishing their maps. Finish reading to them Ocean Waifs.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Mayne ReidThe Ocean WaifsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read Frank Norris’s “The Octopus” almost till midnight.' Edmund Blunden Frank NorrisThe Octopus: A Story of CaliforniaPrint: Book
1900-1945'After arranging for the little gunner captain to go straight through from Fas so as to be in Kuweit [sic] by 8, and testing Marris' verse translation of Horace's "Odes",...Ronald Storrs HoraceThe Odes of Horace, Books i-iv, and the Saecular H...Print: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ...Hugh Miller Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin...Anne Lutton HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce.Thomas Babington Macaulay HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds...Emmeline Pankhurst Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 14 March 1808: 'Began reading the "Odyssey" of Homer in Pope's translation. Delighted with it.'Mary Berry Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday August 19th. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.' Claire Clairmont Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'During the winter evenings of 1855 my father would translate the Odyssey aloud into Biblical prose for my mother, who writes, "Thus I get as much as it is possible to ha...Alfred Tennyson Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Freeman on race and language, which holds well to date, especially in his negation of Austria and Turkey as possible empires. John v Arabic and Homer's "Odyssey" xi...Ronald Storrs HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945The tourist class in the 'Athenia' was a distraction of wailing children and howling winds. I dislike the sea anyway when it is anything other than something blue t...Freya Stark HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945There is a cold air coming off Labrador, but not so bad as Syria. The sea is grey, exactly the colour of the seagulls with the white under their wings...I have the ...Freya Stark HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I finished Prideaux's "Connection of the Old and New Testament" history.'Joseph Hunter Humphrey PrideauxThe Old and New Testament ConnectedPrint: Book


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