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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
 
1900-1945'The sergeant was a small chap, and all night was so tireless that I thought of Alan Breck Stewart in Kidnapped.'Reginald Hugh Kiernan Robert Louis StevensonKidnappedPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918: 'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked Graves. Nichols not so much.'Edward Morgan Forster Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Surely no book was ever read and re-read and talked over as that first new volume, although we went on to buy many more.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Robert Michael BallantyneThe Iron HorsePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By...James Murray Robert Michael Ballantyne[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Robert Michael BallantyneCoral IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Robert Michael Ballantyne[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Robert Michael Ballantyne Print: Book
1900-1945'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young...Lawrence Durrell Robert Michael Ballantyne[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir Robert Michael BallantyneHudson Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 February 1841: 'If you are looking out for romances to melt away the sense of snow & long evenings from your invalid [i.e....Elizabeth Barrett Robert Montgomery BirdNick of the Woods: A Story of KentuckyPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,...Joseph Toole Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns us again.'Henry William Williamson Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford[article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispa...Print: Newspaper
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 Robert Penn WarrenNight RiderManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge parcel of books. His father had bought him a complete...Lawrence Durrell Robert Smith Surtees[probably] Jorrocks's Jaunts and JollitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.<...		Isabel Taylor Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Devil’s ThoughtsUnknown
1900-1945'Friday. Cold + wet under foot. Frenchman fainted after bath. Bridge. Still losing. Fr. + read The Fighting Chance by RW Chambers.'William Thomas Robert W. ChambersThe Fighting ChancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".'John Frederick William Dunn Robert W. ServiceRhymes of a Red Cross ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'The loading of ships was once a matter of skill, judgement and knowledge. Thick books have been written about it. "Stevens on Stowage" is a portly volume with the re...Joseph Conrad Robert White StevensOn the Stowage of ShipsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Robert William ServiceSongs of a SourdoughPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Roden Noel (February 1885): 'Your article in the Contemporary has been sent to me ***. My eyes are very bad. One is entirely gone for all reading pu...Alfred Tennyson Roden NoelpoemsPrint: Book


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