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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 do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read "Pickwick Papers", pausing now and then to anoint myself with face cream.'Frank Smythe Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I sat up late reading of Mr. Jingle's artifices, until at last I began to speculate drowsily as to that gentleman's proficiency on ski. It seemed that he was arguing fie...Frank Smythe Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensThe Pickwick Papers Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last me...		Knox Taylor Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 10.2.41 A. B. Dilks in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
4. The subject ...		Bruce Dilks Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
2. The Treasurer ...		Margaret Dilks Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
2. The Treasurer ...		Margaret Dilks Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. Rather depressed. No go. Reading Pickwick Papers &c.'William Thomas Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a reader he [the Hudson children's tutor, a Mr Trigg] certainly was great, and every evening, when the evenings were long, he would give a two hours’ reading to...William Henry Hudson Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian GrayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Here one is amazingly comfortable: a beautiful house lent by two young bachelors, Finch-Hatton and Pixley: lovely Japanese hangings and enamel ware, Persian carpet...Francis Brett Young Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian GreyPrint: Book
'I now, after too long delays, return you the Westminster Review, with Chalmers' Picture of Scotland; both of which I was very glad to see. The Picture is a very amusing ...Thomas Carlyle Robert ChambersThe Picture of ScotlandPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir Robert BrowningThe Pied Piper of HamelinPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Charlotte M. YongeThe Pigeon PiePrint: Book
1900-1945'I won't say anything of "The Pigeon"-- except that it reads admirably and that I have been fascinated by the theme and the handling of the personages.' Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Pigeon: A Fantasy in Three Acts Unknown
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'"It is an hard matter," wrote John Bunyan in "The Pilgrim's Progress", "to go down into the Valley of Humiliation."'Vera Brittain John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'The only books he had were little nature-study notebooks, supplemented by his mother reading The Pilgrim's Progress aloud. Once she cheated by leaving out a lon...Alan Mathison Turing John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'I can say this much that your paper has impressed me very much, and I shall never get the village out of my head; I know the place; it is called (to imitate Bunyan) the ...Robert Louis Stevenson John BunyanThe Pilgrim?s Progress from this world to that whi...Print: Book


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