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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'All the reading up is Macaulay, p.530 to 535 and then p. 616 to 630'. [The context of the reference suggests the text is Macaulay's History of England. RLS has been refe...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'All the same I've read your two short stories. Very good both. Very good indeed. But I am not going to think out a string of complimentary phrases for you. You are a big...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsunknownManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'All the shoals that were dry at half ebb afforded plenty of fish, left dry in small hollows of the rocks, and a profusion of large shell-fish (Chama gigas) such as Dampi...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1800-1849'All the while I am writing now my head is running about the Tropics: in the morning I go and gaze at Palm trees in the hot-house and come home and read Humboldt: my enth...Charles Darwin HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'All these sketches have the quality without which neither beauty, nor I am afraid, truth, are effective, that is they are interesting in themselves. I've spent all yeste...Joseph Conrad Helen Sanderson (pseud. 'Janet Allardyce')African Sketches and Impressions Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'All this has done me good like the word in 'The Doctor &c', which relieved the author so much.' ['all this' refers to a rhapsodic description of alpine scenery encoun...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Robert SoutheyDoctor, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But at first I was ill (whh made the gift all the more valuable;) and then I thought I would read it first: an...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Hamilton AideCarr of CarrlyonPrint: Book
1700-1799'All this while [between the ages of 7 and 15] I neither read nor wrote; nor had I access to any book save the Bible. I was greatly taken with our version of the Psalms o...James Hogg Bible [Psalms]Print: Book
1850-1899'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Helbeck of Bannisdale"].Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1900-1945'All very cheerful to-day as there is very good news from the Front. Allies swiftly advancing and sweeping all before them ... The Germans won't tell us anything, but...J. A. Sillitoe Hill Dortmunder ZeitungPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "Poor Capt Duckworth much lamented both by officers an...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow ...Allen Clark [unknown][physiology textbooks]Print: Book
1850-1899'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow ...Allen Clarke Francois RabelaisGargantua and PantagruelPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most temptin...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Cox BennettBaby May and Other Poems on Infants Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most temptin...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Cox BennettTriumph for Salamis, the: a lyrical ballad
1600-1699'Almanzor is as fresh in my memory, as if I had visitted his Tombe but Yesterday, though it bee at least seven yeare agon since. . . . I made his Story such a one to mee,...Dorothy Osborne Robert AshleyAlmansor the Learned and Victorious King that Conq...Print: Book
1900-1945'Almost every day there is some reference to it [Ford's book on Conrad] here or there. I am sending you a copy of the Saturday Review which has one.'Ford Madox Ford [n/a]Saturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'John Ruskin [unknown][life of Lord Byron]Print: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Charles DickensPickwick Papers, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book


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