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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[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Olive Schreiner Print: Book
1900-1945'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as insistent and inspiring as a trumpet-call summoning ...Vera Brittain Olive SchreinerWoman and LabourPrint: Book
1900-1945'During the next few weeks I spent a good many troubled, speculative, exciting hours with the little volume clasped in my hands.'Vera Brittain Olive SchreinerThe Story of an African FarmPrint: Book
1900-1945'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner and followed the militant campaigns with the exciteme...Vera Brittain Olive SchreinerunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Charles Causley Olive Higgins ProutyStella DallasPrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Olive Higgins ProutyStella DallasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading a book by Oliver Baldwin. A lot of it is the sentimentalism of a few years back, which fell to pieces when the Hun was at our Back and Front Door. He seems at...Vere Hodgson Oliver BaldwinThe Questing Beast: An AutobiographyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oliver CromwellHis Highnesse the Lord Protector's speeches to the...Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes and marginal marks, including some showing signs of irritation: v.5 p.96 "Oh do have done!"; v.4: "Oh do shut up". Several dates of reading noted includi...George Otto Trevelyan Oliver CromwellOliver Cromwell's letters and speeches; with eluci...Print: Book
1800-1849'At the time I received thy letter, I was reading Carlyle's 'Life of Cromwell'. I was unable to procure the second volume immediately, and while waiting for it, I have ...Eliza Ellis Oliver CromwellOliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Eluci...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker Oliver Goldsmith Print: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...Thomas Jones Oliver GoldsmithHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith Oliver Goldsmith Print: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet: "I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I could read and understand almost. Yes, very likely ...anon Oliver GoldsmithEdwin and AngelinaPrint: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Oliver Goldsmith Print: Book
1800-1849The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the Greeks in general were.Anne Lister Oliver GoldsmithThe Grecian HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of WakefieldAnne Lister Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel...William Robertson Nicoll Oliver GoldsmithunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton Oliver GoldsmithThe History of England from the Earliest Times...Print: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lips." John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book


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