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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 Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Muriel Stevens William Makepeace ThackerayThe Rose and the RingPrint: Book
1700-1799'We had much talk among us of Chatterton, &, as he was best known in this part of the world, I attended particularly to the opinion of Dr. Harrington concerning him; & th...Henry Harington Thomas ChattertonThe Rowley poemsPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I wish you would get that Academy book which one always finds in a dentist's waiting room so that we could compare notes. If you do you must particularly notice "T...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]The Royal Academy IllustratedPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Leadbetter's "General Gauger".'Thomas Turner Charles LeadbetterThe royal gauger; or gauging made perfectly easyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Royal Mandate deserves to be printed in letters of gold - how sweetly descriptive it is, the help to private devotion too, I think very spiritual, for a small work. ...Elizabeth Marshall The Royal MandatePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'The Royal Sufferers, or Intrigues at the Close of the 18th Century. by J.Agg. 3 vols.' [no commentary on the text: part of list of texts read]Ellen Weeton John AggThe Royal Sufferer; or, Intrigues at the close ofPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles DallisonThe Royalist's DefencePrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, T...questionaire respondent anonThe Rubiyat of Omar KhayyamPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeremy TaylorThe Rule and Exercises of Holy LivingPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeremy TaylorThe Rules and Exercises of Holy LivingPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have read the Ruminator, and I fear that I do not like it quite as much as you would wish. It wants depth and s...William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesThe RuminatorPrint: Book
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, by a strange, but able, old man (Sir E[gerton] B[ryd...George Gordon Lord Byron Sir Egerton BrydgesThe Ruminator: containing a series of moral, criti...Print: Book
1600-1699'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this yeardoth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that a...Samuel Pepys John TathamThe Rump, or The mirror of the late timesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Elizabeth Anna HartThe RunawayPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I read "The Runners" last week," he continued, and told her that he had advised John Lane to refuse it.'John Priestley Winifred HoltbyThe RunnersManuscript: Manuscript of an unpublished novel.
1800-1849'Read Shuckfords Connections, Galt's Life of West. The former is a work of a man of great learning and little judgement.'Benjamin Newton Samuel ShuckfordThe sacred and profane history of the worldPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of all books for this din -- sitting by the open window...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Sacred FountPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'When we meet I will shew you a most elegant piece of latin on the eternity of future punishment e...Robert Southey Thomas BurnettThe Sacred Theory of the Earth Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Some of the boys' prizes fell into my keeping, handed to me in disgust. One of these, "The Safe Compass", afforded me many a joyful hour. It took the gloomiest views as ...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Safe CompassPrint: Book
1800-1849'the sailor / rogers'Mary Groom Samuel RogersThe SailorUnknown


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