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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'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

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7. We then listened to a nu...		Janet Rawlings Manfred KyberThe Patented Crocodile [Das patentierte Krokodil]Print: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe Pathfinder or The Inland SeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I didn't write to thank you for the delightful volume ["The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments"] as I hoped [...] to have the pleasure of seeing yo...Joseph Conrad J. (James) G. (Gibbons) HunekerThe Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and O...Print: Book
1900-1945'Of course it ["The Patrician"] isn't pure aesthetics (only Flaubert's "Salammbo" among novels is that) but even on that ground alone you have done a very fine thing.' He...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe PatricianPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene 22. II 1937
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (by F.E.P. in regretted absence of the Secretary) & approv...		Edgar Castle Robert BrowningThe PatriotUnknown
1800-1849‘...Other tales, in which beasts and birds compose the Dramatis Personae, are to be considered as burlesque satires, intended to make human actions and passions ridicul...Hartley Coleridge Catherine Ann Turner DorsetThe Peacock ‘at Home’: A sequel to the Butterfly's...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Pearl Maiden.'Verena Vera Pennefather H. Rider HaggardThe Pearl MaidenPrint: Book
1900-1945'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.Ewan McColl Friedrich EngelsThe Peasant War in GermanyPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 6 October 1800: 'After tea read The Pedlar.'Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthThe PedlarUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: '[while Mary Hutchinson walked to Ambleside] I stayed at home and clapped the small linen. Wm. sate besid...William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe PedlarManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'In the afternoon ... I mended Wm.'s stockings while he was reading The Pedlar.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe PedlarManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 February, 1802: 'We sate by the fire, and ... read the Pedlar, thinking it done; but lo! though Wm. could find fault with ...William and Dorothy WordsworthWilliam WordsworthThe PedlarManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'We sate by the fire in the evening, and read The Pedlar over.'William and Dorothy WordsworthWilliam WordsworthThe PedlarManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 20 March 1802: 'After tea Wm. read The Pedlar.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe PedlarManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'I can see myself now, seated on the nursery floor, hugging my doll while I read "The Peep of Day". Religion held no terrors for me.'Emily Lytton F. L. BevanThe Peep of DayPrint: Book
1850-1899BL edition inscribed 'Victoria of Prussia' and initialled page after page with some dates presumeably showing when read to. Earliest date 5th August 1871 lesson 1, Lesso...Victoria of Prussia [unknown]The Peep of Day; or a series of the earliest religPrint: Book
1850-1899'Many people of my age must have imbibed their early religious notions from the same book that I did.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Peep of the DayPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Collins's "Peerage of England".'Thomas Turner Arthur CollinsThe peerage of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of the 1st volume of "The Peerage of England".'Thomas Turner Arthur CollinsThe peerage of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of "The Peerage of England".'Thomas Turner Arthur CollinsThe peerage of EnglandPrint: Book


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