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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'In the even read part of a simple thing called "The West Country Clothier" and, notwithstanding the meanness of the language, I think the character of the midwife and go...Thomas Turner anonThe West County ClothierPrint: Unknown
1800-1849From the 'West Indies' a Poem by Montgomery.Part 2 Page 22 'In These romantic regions[...] From the same, Part 3 'There is a land[...] From the Same part 3. Page 35 'And ...John Warburton James MontgomeryThe West IndiesUnknown
1800-1849'Thy chains are broken, Africa, be free!...'Bowly groupJames MontgomeryThe West Indies OR 'Thy Chains Are Broken'Unknown
1900-1945'Up very early. Medicine successful. Joined in [Fam.?] Prayer. Clock run down at last and so wound by May ... Read "The Westcotes".'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Arthur Quiller-CouchThe WestcotesPrint: BookUnknown
1700-1799'Finished the "Whisperer or Tales & Speculations" by Gabriel Silvertongue. It was written by J. Montgomery and part of it appeared in "The Iris" in the year 1795. All th...Joseph Hunter James MontgomeryThe Whisperer; or Tales & SpeculationsPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have been re-reading lately...Joseph Arnould John WebsterThe White DevilPrint: Book
1800-1849'This is to let you know that I am at present in the classiz neighbourhood of Bolton Abbey whither I was led the other day by some half-remembrance of a note to one of Wo...Alfred Tennyson William WordsworthThe white doe of RylstonePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is St Patrick's Day - there is a reading of "The White Headed Boy" by an Irish author with an Irish cast.'Thomas Kitching Lennox RobinsonThe White Headed BoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in lis...Dorothy Brain John GalsworthyThe White MonkeyPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
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6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had rece...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds John GalsworthyThe White MonkeyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Holderlin's Hyperion -- I wish someone would translate ...Edward Morgan Forster D. H. LawrenceThe White PeacockPrint: Book
1900-1945‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney D.H. (David Herbert) LawrenceThe White PeacockPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks for the little book of fantasy and charm and sharp irony seasoning the tragic story of poor Loveday, who had no other name.[...] Its a gem in its way...Joseph Conrad Fryniwyid Tennyson JesseThe White Riband; Or a Young Female's FollyPrint: Book
1850-1899'That would be in the year 1852, when I was fifteen. About the same time I read "The White Slave" and the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. Thus began a keen, lasting ...Thomas Burt Richard HildrethThe white slave, or memoirs of a fugitivePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was not strange in these circumstances [suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the religious literatur...William Henry Hudson Richard AllestreeThe Whole Duty of ManPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907: 'you sent me Mrs. Phelps Ward's contribution to the "Whole Family" -- which I began to read the other day, but which immediat...Henry James Elizabeth Stuart Phelps WardThe Whole Family (chapter)Unknown
1700-1799'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.'Thomas Turner Richard AllestreeThe whole new duty of man, containing the faith as...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Duncan ForbesThe Whole WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert LeightonThe Whole Works of Robert Leighton, D.D.Print: 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 Susan WarnerThe Wide Wide WorldPrint: Book


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