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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'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Margaret Dilks Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I send back "The Windlestraw" by return of post. In this sort of apologue you are simply incomparable.' Hence follows a page of praise. Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe WindlestrawManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.'Virginia Woolf The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for M...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flyi...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Wings of a DovePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulations become so elaborate towards the end that instead ...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Wings of a DovePrint: Book
1800-1849'The Wings of the Dove. Mrs Hemans' [transcribes text]Augusta Browne F.D. HemansThe Wings of the DoveUnknown
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Henry JamesThe Wings of the DovePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read story of a yacht race. Bed 9.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook anon The Winning Gun: The Story of a Yacht RacePrint: PamphletUnknown
1800-1849'The Wintery smile of Sorrow / Moore' [transcription of text].Mary Groom Thomas MooreThe Wintery Smile of SorrowUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgThe Wisdom of Angels concerning Divine Love and Di...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Simon Dale by Anthony Hope.
Heaven on earth incline your head to move in charity Rest in Providence + turn upon the poles of truth.
What is love. Madne...		William Thomas Ellen Thorneycroft FowlerThe Wisdom of FollyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public in behalf of Admiral Byng ...I also read Bally's poem on the wisdom of the Supreme Being, which I think is a very s...Thomas Turner George BallyThe Wisdom of the Supreme BeingPrint: Book
1900-1945Marie Woolf to Leonard Woolf (reader's son), 11 December 1913: 'I am now returning you the Manuscript [of The Wise Virgins] [...] the reading of which has given me mor...Marie Woolf Leonard WoolfThe Wise VirginsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight on until bedtime, when I finished it. My opinion is that it is a remar...Virginia Woolf Leonard WoolfThe Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'A Wish' 'Rogers' [transcribes text] 'Mine be a cot beside a hill...'Mary Dugdale Samuel RogersThe WishUnknown
1800-1849'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, witho...Jane Baillie Welsh Leigh HuntThe Wishing CapPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled...Jane Baillie Welsh Mary Martha SherwoodThe Wishing CapPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he had written. We were an eager, attentive audience, an...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonThe Witch Woman
1700-1799
1800-1849		'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...Samuel Bamford anonThe witches of the woodlandsPrint: Book
1700-1799'On 2 August [1779], Charles Burney at Chessington read ... [The Witlings] aloud to a party which included [Samuel] Crisp, Crisp's sister Sophia Gast and the other Chessi...Charles Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown


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