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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'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs....Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy [unknown][medical book]Print: Book
1900-1945'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs....Edna Bold and her cousin DorothyJohn FoxeFoxe's Book of MartyrsPrint: Book
1900-1945Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Robert Louis StevensonKidnappedPrint: Book
1900-1945Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Mark TwainTom SawyerPrint: Book
1900-1945Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Mark TwainHuckleberry FinnPrint: Book
1900-1945That I understood very little of what I read did not really matter to me (Washington Irving's 'Life of Columbus' was as awful as the dictionary because of the long words)...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Washington IrvingLife of ColumbusPrint: Book
1900-1945I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leatherL it defeated me. Words...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Nicholas SoyerThe Art of Paper Bag CookeryPrint: Book
1900-1945I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leather: it defeated me. Words...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marcus AureliusThe Meditations of Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1900-1945I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leather: it defeated me. Words...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Hall CaineThe BondmanPrint: Book
1900-1945I moved to Marie Corelli and there I found a book of newspaper articles called 'Free Opinions'. The type was large. The words were easy, rather contemptibly so. I read an...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marie CorelliFree OpinionsPrint: Book, Newspaper
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marie CorelliMaster ChristainPrint: Book
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William ShakespeareShakespeare's Complete WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William Cullen BryantThanatopsisPrint: Book
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Ralph Waldo TrineIn Tune with the InfinitePrint: Book
1900-1945"'..[Lady Cynthia Asquith's] diary records several occasions when, in the family circle or with a romantic companion, [Rupert] Brooke's poems were read aloud; 12 June and...Asquith FamilyRupert BrookepoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Ex-Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the Falloden Papers, on how he spent his time after being deposed from the Cabinet in 1916: ' ... I spent some weeks alone in the ...Sir Edward Grey William ShakespeareplaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading Mrs Browning's published letters in 1900, Wilfrid Blunt was reminded of how much he admired her and her husband's poetry ...'Wilfrid Blunt Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Thomas Burke on literary figures' responses to his requests, as a teenager, for advice on starting a career as a writer: '... they spoke of the stress and anxiety of the ...Thomas Burke George GissingNew Grub StreetPrint: Book
1900-1945'Arthur Benson ... when rereading the Shorter Poems [of Robert Bridges] in 1910, thought them thin, mere tricks of language ...'Arthur Benson Robert BridgesShorter PoemsPrint: Book


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