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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
 
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 11 June 1786:] 'I have just been reading, in an ancient acount of India, that the women there were remarkably chaste, unless the ...Elizabeth Carter 'ancient account of India'Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:] 'I had just been reading a paper which I met with at Aylesbury: it was a most puffy preface to proposals published b...Thomas Edwards Proposal for 'Universal Dictionary of Commerce'Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 March 1752, following his account of recent storm damage to rooks' nests in his garden:] 'This impertinent episode of the rook...Thomas Edwards  Print: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:] 'I did say, and I really do think, that it is a pity so many fine performances, as you and I have seen written by ...Thomas Edwards [Poetry by women]Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Have signed and sent off agreement with Paul.'Robert Louis Stevenson  Manuscript: Letter, UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'Later I sent my mother a clipping from the Louisville "Courier-Journal", whose woman reporter had been present.'Vera Brittain Courier-JournalPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Among 200 reviews and notices, another clipping from the "Yorkshire Post" remarked on the astonishing persistence with which Winifred remained "news" when so many writer...Vera Brittain Yorkshire PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Into my mind flashed the "New York Times" headlines which I had read over breakfast that morning.'Vera Brittain New York TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In a 'Yorkshire Post' article he subsequently described his three days on Willkie's campaign train, with its eleven cars and freight of one hundred politicians, journali...Vera Brittain Yorkshire PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Two days afterwards I wrote to Clare during an air raid, enclosing a paragraph about her parents from the "Star Man's Diary" and a short appreciation which I had vainly ...Vera Brittain "Star Man's Diary"Print: Unknown
1900-1945'"The censorship here is so close that I depend for most of my information upon "Time" and "Life"," I wrote to New York that summer.'Vera Brittain "Time" Magazine Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1900-1945'There was a study of you [André Gide] in the "Times". Have you seen it? It is intelligent up to a point and respectful.' Joseph Conrad article in "Times Literary Supplement"Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I am also much obliged to you for the little book, which seems composed with a pious spirit; but I own calling th...Anne Donnellan 'Psalms'Print: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, 29 October 1749, in discussion of her view that his characters Anna Howe and Clarissa Harlowe would have been made happy b...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh The Spectator No. 476Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, in undated letter:] 'I have lately very often put the question to myself, whether I would chuse to live my time over ag...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh 'The wise son of Sirach'Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, on reading 'confessions,' 16 December 1749:] 'I have read many of them over, and have been so puzzled, that I knew not ...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh "Confessions"Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The commanding officer, a timid, fragile man, gave me (as his way was) a pocket Testament bound in green suède, with coloured pictures. It went with me always, mainly un...Edmund Blunden The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'At the end of October, a paragraph by the "Daily Mail" Correspondent in Lisbon "revealed" the peril which she and her fellow evacuees were fortunate to survive.'Vera Brittain [Report in the "Daily Mail"]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The "New Statesman" described the exponents of this policy as "Bitterenders"; their high priest was Lord Vansittart, whose propaganda seemed guaranteed to defeat the str...Vera Brittain New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'"...Women were wandering about half-crazy," stated an account in the Swiss newspaper, "National-Zeitung", and a stoker who deserted from a German ship told the Stockholm...Vera Brittain National-ZeitungPrint: Newspaper


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