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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'Since writing it, I have found in a poem by Hamilton of Bangour, these 2 lines to happiness

Nun sober and devout, where art thou fled
To hide in shade...		Charles Lamb William HamiltonunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'We are ... to meet Moncure Conway.We have just been reading a very grand sermon of his on Darwinism.'Emma Darwin Moncure Daniel ConwayunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now. [...] A copy of the July “BLUE” enfolding some rath...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘A violent rain after midnight drenched my clothes and tackle in pockets thereof, including the fair Tennyson.’ Edmund Blunden Alfred, Lord TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Bosch put heavies into the camp now and then. I was busy in a small way most of the day, in the afternoon read Shelley, and Wells’ “[The] Country of the Blind” with eq...Edmund Blunden Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Still, in daytime, we sometimes got out of the trench into the tall sorrelled grass behind, which the sun had dried, and enjoyed a warm indolence with a book (not “Infan...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Englebelmer, indeed, was now entering upon a dark period.[...]. Still we explored the church into which opened a mysterious tunnel; as if on holiday we examined the bri...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: parish magazine
1900-1945'The house in which some of us were lodged was the quietest conceivable [...]; our beds were in the attics, and during the night we had scarcely thrown down the French n...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘A French poet (there are as many in France as this side), Albert Satteau, who always added to his name the dignity “des Gens de Lettres", used to receive me kindly at “L...Edmund Blunden Albert SatteauunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘At Watten station [...] I sauntered by the canal then settled myself with my book in an empty cattle truck.' Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'One could find books in Thiepval; I am guilty of taking my copy of Ferdinand von Freiligrath's bombastic poems from that uncatalogued library.'Edmund Blunden Ferdinand FreiligrathunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scrawl of poor people in Thiepval and other places of th...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of...Ronald Storrs Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so,to fifnish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "[The] Ot...Ronald Storrs Leslie StephenunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am tempted by an Essay of Lady Verney's to read ''Millman's History of the Jews''.'Emma Darwin Frances Parthenope, Lady VerneyUnknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'She [Emma Darwin] was especially devoted to Jane Austen's novels and almost knew them by heart... Scott was also a perennial favourite, especially ''The Antiquary''. Mrs...Emma Darwin Jane AustenunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Emma Darwin] was especially devoted to Jane Austen's novels and almost knew them by heart... Scott was also a perennial favourite, especially ''The Antiquary''. Mrs...Emma Darwin Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Emma Darwin] was especially devoted to Jane Austen's novels and almost knew them by heart... Scott was also a perennial favourite, especially ''The Antiquary''. Mrs...Emma Darwin Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Emma Darwin] was especially devoted to Jane Austen's novels and almost knew them by heart... Scott was also a perennial favourite, especially ''The Antiquary''. Mrs...Emma Darwin William Makepeace ThackerayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'For my own War reading I found, as the popularity of "The Times Broadsheets" proved, that the essential was, remoteness from actuality. Henry James, by his sublime irrel...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesunknownPrint: Book


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