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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'Read, wounds dressed. Read "The Way of an Eagle".'John Frederick William Dunn Ethel DellThe Way of an EaglePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just finished The Way of the World; there is only one person in it , no there are three — who are nice: the wild American woman, and two of the dissi...Robert Louis Stevenson Anthony TrollopeThe Way We Live NowPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rawlinson sore leg. Wrote a letter home asking for biscuits &c. Read The Wayfarers by JC Snaith.'William Thomas John Collis SnaithThe WayfarersPrint: Book
1900-1945'11.30 service. Rather depressed. Ev Bridge Won. Read the Wayfarers & the Country of the Blind by HG Wells.'William Thomas John Collis SnaithThe WayfarersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive...John Johnson Adam SmithThe Wealth of NationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the principles of morality". The first is a sensible sort of bo...Thomas Carlyle Adam SmithThe Wealth of NationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Trade very dull - weather very wet and rather windy as predicted by Murphy'.Joseph Jenkinson Patrick MurphyThe Weather Almanack, 1838-39Print: Book, almanac
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 8th May ’43
    Muriel Stevens in the Chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed

[...] ...		Roger Moore James BoswellThe Wedding DayPrint: Book
1800-1849'My uncle and some others were subscribers to The Weekly Dispatch, each of the subscribers agreeing as to the time and days they were to have the paper read.'villagers of South Mimms [n/a]The Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849James Harvey 'Blind Jim" 'had, from hearing, mastered most of the content of these two important papers [Times and Weekly Dispatch], and then made some capital out of hav...James Harvey [n/a]The Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899I had a snug evening with Mildred reading part of the broken last novel of L. Stevenson, in which he gives most elaborate descriptions of characters you don't care for. H...Emma Darwin Robert Louis StevensonThe Weir of Hermiston Print: Book
1900-1945'...your criticism of the"Well". I quite see your point, and, of course, agree that the interests of the tale reach their climax in the great scene at the World's End...Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Well at the World's EndPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading again "The Well at the World's End", and it has completely ravished me. There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the ha...Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Well at the World's EndPrint: Book
1900-1945'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college in 1936, but they taught her nothing about sex: "Th...Margaret Wharton Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1900-1945'I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.' [The Well of Loneliness]Arnold Bennett Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1900-1945On the conclusion of the 'Well of Loneliness' case, I propose to devote an article to it in the Evening Standard. I need not tell you that I am anti-police.Arnold Bennett Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1900-1945'November brought a peculiar police-court case, which made literary history, after Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well of Loneliness", had been suppressed for impropriety. ...Vera Brittain Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“The Well of St Keyne” [unattributed, but by Southey] beginning 'A well there is in the West Countr...Catherine Austen Robert SoutheyThe Well of St KeyneUnknown
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Catherine HuttonThe Welsh MountaineerPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I am always pleased to remember that ?Far from the mad...Leslie Stephen Thomas HardyThe Wessex PoemsPrint: Book


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