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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
 
1850-1899'I have read Morley's second article on Education today'Robert Louis Stevenson John MorleyThe Struggle for National EducationPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth...Percy Wall A.K. von HuhnThe Struggle of the Bulgarians for National Indepe...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on "A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge" ["The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler"] the rest are moderates among the m...John Clare unknownThe Struggles of a Senior WranglerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Herbert SpencerThe Study of SociologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826: 'I will ask you [...] whether you have ever read the Subaltern? It is said, by military men to be a very exact a...Uvedale Price George Robert GleigThe SubalternPrint: Book
1800-1849'Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of Wellington said to be written by B.Constant 'un heros froid et mediocre [...]' I am quite sick of Hobhouse's book his ...Benjamin Newton John HobhouseThe substance of some lettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Margaret Dilks anon The Suffolk MiracleUnknown
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Suggestion Book" in which there were a great many sarc...John Buckley Castieau club members The Suggestion BookManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Somerset MaughamThe Summing-UpPrint: Book
1900-1945'I can't tell you how much I like "The Sun and the Fish", (all the more because it is all about things we did together,) and I am ordering a copy of Time and Tide.'Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfThe Sun and the FishPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I began [Thomson's] The Seasons last night; after Eddie [...Virginia Woolf Edward Sackville-WestThe Sun in CapricornPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Someone has lent me two of Tchekof’s [Chekhov]'s plays—"The Sea-gull" and "The Cherry Orchard". The first I have read twice and am very struck with it—for its truth ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Gerhart HauptmannThe Sunken BellPrint: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 13 February 1898: 'Have you read Crockett's new book, the Adventures of Sir Toady Lion? It is splendid: a child's story, & remind...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel Rutherford CrockettThe Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady LionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's "Chronicle and survey of London". by wisdom, truth and heed was he/ Advanced an alderm...William Windham John StowThe survey of LondonPrint: Book
1850-1899On 8 September 1854 Christiana Thompson noted in her diary that her children Elizabeth and Alice (later Alice Meynell) were 'reading every day with their Pa Swiss Family ...Thompson FamilyJohann David WyssThe Swiss Family RobinsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the whole of Swiss Family Robinson, and was not deterred by the bloodstain which had obliterated half the print on a page in the middle of the book, at the point ...Richard Church Johann WyssThe Swiss Family RobinsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the sewing machine lay Jack's library book, a dirty brown object disguised in a uniform binding with gilt numbers on the back. I picked it up, opened it at the fi...Richard Church Johann WyssThe Swiss Family RobinsonPrint: Book
1700-1799'her [Fanny Burney's] Scoundrel Bookseller having advertised the Sylph along with it [Evelina] lately, and endeavouring to make the World believe it [italics] hers [end i...Hester Lynch Thrale Georgiana, Duchess of DevonshireThe Sylph: a NovelPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christopher HarveyThe Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the TemplePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christopher HarveyThe Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the TemplePrint: Book


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