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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
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Another [woman prisoner] read and re-read "Uncle Tom's Cabin," till she must have known by heart every incident of that famous work. She was partial to telling the sto...Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 30 October 1852:

'I cannot write books handling the topics of the day [...] Nor can I take up a philanthropic scheme, tho...		Charlotte Brontë Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in m...William Wordsworth Felicia Hemansuncollected poemsUnknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Helen Rawlings Undaunted MaryPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translati...Wilfred Owen Henri BarbusseUnder FirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translati...Siegfried sassoon Henri BarbusseUnder FirePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Charles Evans John BurroughsUnder the Apple TreesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I then read a book of Kipling's, "Under the Derdens [sic] ", which I had brought home with me and will send to you as soon as Grandmamma [Lady Olliffe] has read it. It i...Gertrude Bell Rudyard KiplingUnder the DeodarsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood TreePrint: Book
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "...Norman Nicholson Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood TreePrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H.M. Wallis one on the minor poems. F.E. Reynolds rea...Sylvanus Reynolds Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood TreePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 10.2.41 A. B. Dilks in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
4. The subject ...		Edith B. Smith Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood TreePrint: Book
1900-1945'Paxton has a bet of a dinner that war will be over by 1st July. So Bridge. Read Under Two Flags by Ouida.' William Thomas Maria Louise RamUnder Two FlagsPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire ...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradUnder Western EyesPrint: Book
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 Joseph ConradUnder Western EyesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Edmund BlundenUndertones of WarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato's republic'Mary Shelley Friedich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte FouqueUndine, eine ErzahlungPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford Friedrich de la Motte FouquéUndine, eine ErzahlungPrint: Book
1850-1899'I believe I have not written to you since I saw the end of the Undiscovered Country.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Dean HowellsUndoscovered CountryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett Charles BernardUne Aventure de magistratPrint: Book


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