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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		'One smiles at the vision of the gentle Richard Jefferies slaughtering wild cattle in the palaeolithic way, but that feeling and desire which he describes with such...William Henry Hudson Richard JefferiesThe Story of My HeartPrint: Book
1850-1899'Field and Hedgerow'Sarah Good Richard JefferiesField and HedgerowPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1889 [...] [Charlotte Mew] had been reading [Richard] Jeffries' "Field and Hedgerow", his last essays, a book published after his death [which supplied the epigram fo...Charlotte Mew Richard JeffriesField and HedgerowPrint: Book
1700-1799'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ...Samuel Bamford Richard JohnsonThe History of The Seven ChampionsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke Richard JohnsonThe Seven Champions of Christendom and Destruction...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke Richard JohnsonThe honour or chivalry; or, the famous history of ...Print: Book
1800-1849'At four and a half my great delight was poring over fairy phenomenons and the actions of necromancers -- & the seven champions of Christendom in "Popular tales" has be...Elizabeth Barrett Richard JohnsonThe Famous Historie of the Seven Champions of Chri...Print: Book
1700-1799'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'.Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Richard KnollesThe Turkish HistoryPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Richard KnollesThe generall historie of the TurksPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Sometimes although neither of us was gifted with a voice of much power..." (Captain Clapperton). Landar's Expedition - Captain Clapperton died of a fever at Soccatoo 1...Bowly groupRichard LanderRecords of Captain Clapperton's last expeditionUnknown
1800-1849'Song of the wives of the King of Cariba... Landar's expedition'Bowly groupRichard LanderRecords of Captain Clapperton's Last ExpeditionUnknown
1800-1849'The following imperfect translation of a song to the Sovereign of Khiama may serve as a specimen of the poetry of the Africans - Landor'Bowly groupRichard LanderRecords of Captain Clapperton's Last ExpeditionUnknown
1900-1945'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'Philip Ballard Richard Le Gallienne Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding Richard LlewellynHow Green Was My ValleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detective stories, I like Naomi Jacobs' early ones. I read ...Richard LlewellynHow Green was My ValleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read no...Richard LlewellynHow Green was My ValleyPrint: Book
'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.		[unknown member of the XII Book Club] Richard LlewellynHow Green Was my ValleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Palm Sunday Appropriate readings this week from Mant (?) [sic] &c.'John Cole Richard MantunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'Elizabeth Bowen Richard MiddletonGhost Ship, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read first number of Owen's "mammalia" in the evening.'John Ruskin Richard OwenFossil MammaliaPrint: Serial / periodical


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