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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'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1850-1899'["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she read "The Three Musketeers", which enabled her to step...Eleanor Farjeon Alexandre DumasThe Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1850-1899'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It...John Masefield Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Alexandre DumasThe Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bought book on War [possibly "Ordeal by Battle," by F. S. Oliver] to send to A. C. [Albert Ruskin Cook, her son in Uganda]. Finished reading The Tide on the Morning Bar....Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Tide on the Morning BarPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to H. G. Wells, 29 January 1900: 'It was very graceful of you to send me your book -- I mean the particular masterpiece entitled "The Time Machine", after I h...Henry James H. G. WellsThe Time MachinePrint: Book
1850-1899'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & also to ask what is your connection with Burslem & the potteries, Bursl...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe Time MachinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Time MachinePrint: Book
1850-1899'The trans: of the T.M.["The Time Machine"] is really first rate. What an admirably good thing it is, this T.M. How true,clever, ingenious, full of thought and beauty. I ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Time MachinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even Tho. Davy to our house, to whom I read a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr James Hervey, A.M., rector of Weston-Favell in Northamptonshire, being preached on so...Thomas Turner James HerveyThe time of danger, and the means of safety; to wh...Print: Book
1850-1899there is a leading article in the "Times" about New ZealandAlbert Battiscombe The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I find even with myself coming to London occasionally only as I do now, that I really take...William Edward Hickson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I formed in the village where I am now living, when I first went there, an evening class o...William Edward Hickson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitechapel church; I have kept it thirteen years -I know ...Nicholas Benigne Ablin The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: Thomas Stevenson: "...next day he said they [stolen property] were advertised. I looked in The Times, and said it was not there....Thomas Stevenson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for conspiracy: Rev. Francis Lee: "In May last I saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper, in consequence of which, I went to no.3, White...Rev Francis Lee The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the Times newspaper, an account of this robbery, and tha...Francis Gifford Banner The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: William Gilbert: "I saw the Times newspaper on the 22nd of March, and in consequence of an advertisement I came to London that ni...William Gilbert The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: William Owens: "I saw him [Peacock] at our house on Saturday evening the 6th of March... I know it was the 6th of March from my s...William Owens The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times."George Gordon, Lord Byron n/aThe TimesPrint: Newspaper


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