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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
1900-1945		'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story ab...Gwen Raverat Susan WarnerThe Wide Wide WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...'Florence White Susan WarnerThe Wide, Wide WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945"Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she had been especially impressed by the passage in whic...Christine Longford Susan WarnerThe Wide, Wide WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide, Wide World".'Flora Thompson Elizabeth WetherellThe Wide, Wide WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerThe Wife of Bath's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales
1900-1945'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time...Frances Stevenson Herbert George WellsThe Wife of Sir Eric HarmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time...David Lloyd George Herbert George WellsThe Wife of Sir Eric HarmanPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s Essays, and a glorious book of critical essays by A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no ficti...Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsThe Wife of Sir Isaac HarmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Francis E. Pollard Henrik IbsenThe Wild DuckPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Reginald H. Robson Henrik IbsenThe Wild DuckPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Howard Smith Henrik IbsenThe Wild DuckPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Mary E. Robson Henrik IbsenThe Wild DuckPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Dorothy Brain Henrik IbsenThe Wild DuckPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Charles E. Stansfield Henrik IbsenThe Wild DuckPrint: Book
1800-1849'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athens" by Miss Owenson; which must be very clever, becau...Jane Austen Sydney OwensonThe Wild Irish GirlPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present till my father's death, or at least very little, yet I...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles Will and I had his opinion on it, and still find mor...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" nor "Winne-the-Pooh", nor any Beatrix Potter -and wh...Patricia Beer Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had not heard of "Wind in the Willows" until I read it during the summer holiday of my seventeenth year!'Norman Nicholson Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The ... grandiloquent "education programme" we were able to satisfy sufficiently. A number of the "boys" were barely literate and Miss Nettleton could deal with the thre...Irene Nettleton Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowsPrint: Book


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