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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
 
1700-1799'Saw ... in the possession of one of our men the "Spy", a periodical printed by Crome in the year 1795, in which were some veery keen things against the Ministry.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The SpyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Borrowed the "Spy" of one of our men; it is peculiarly calculated for the lower class of people. Mr Harrison a schoolmaster in Pond Lane, was one of the Principle writer...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The SpyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The house in which I was born was ... a two-centuries-old Georgian mansion, a barrack of a place that seemed even larger in my juvenile perspective than it actually was ...Desmond Malone William CarletonThe Squanders of Castle SquanderPrint: Book
1850-1899'May (Stowe Hill)'Sarah Good Rolf BoldrewoodThe Squatter's DreamPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 6 April 1869, on fellow spa visitors, Great Malvern: "They are mostly a plain, civil, amiable lot -- addicted to reading the Telegraph and St...visitors staying at Great Malvern The StandardPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon'John Clare Josiah ConderThe Star in the EastPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gladdening ray/ Which o'er the nations sheds a beam of ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]The Star of MissionsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837: 'Yes! the extracts from Mrs Butler's play, in the Athenaeum, are very beautiful -- and so are some others whic...Elizabeth Barrett Frances Anne ButlerThe Star of SevillePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837: 'I have read the Star of Seville [...] It [italics]is[end italics] unequal -- it appears as if its writer st...Elizabeth Barrett Frances Anne ButlerThe Star of SevillePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading a horrible book of Jack London's called "The Jacket". If you come across [it] anywhere, don't read it. it is about the ill-treatment in an American...Clive Staples Lewis Jack LondonThe Star RoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Bruce Dilks Rupert Thomas GouldThe Stargazer TalksPrint: Book
1900-1945'On May 5th the U.S. Forces' newspaper, "The Stars and Stripes", quoted a description by British war prisoners of this fourteen-hour attack.'Vera Brittain The Stars and StripesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to read, but it does give you life's problems, doesn't i...Archibald Joseph CroninThe stars look downPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'Archibald Joseph CroninThe Stars Looked DownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Took the "Gent. Mag." to the Library, & brought Frederick Morton Eden's "State of the Poor"; he gives an account of the state of the poor in most of the large parishes i...Joseph Hunter Sir Frederick Morton EdenThe State of the Poor; or an History of the LabourPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
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5. R....		Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. RobsonThe Stately Homes of ThamesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a co...Thomas Carter [n/a]The StatesmanPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I know that during Elections songs & squibs are fair on each side & much bad wit & many severe things must be said--but I am sure that neither you nor Sir Frances Burdet...Lady Caroline Lamb The StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have been reading a pamphlet by Mr Coleridge, which he calls ''The Statesman's Manual, a Lay Sermon.''... I do think I never did read such stuff as the sermon, such an...Sarah Wedgwood Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Statesman's Manual, a Lay SermonPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'My dear Ross, Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency that I was particularly anxious to see in a well-dig...Charles Dickens Charles RossThe Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowl...Unknown


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