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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'I am really grieved to see that the WEEK END REVIEW is stopping. It was a really admirable journal and gave me pleasure with each number—which is more than I can say f...Ford Madox Ford Week-end ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time replaced with The Examiner.] ?The substitution of the...William Edwin Adams [n/a]Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch newspaper, and afterwards saw handbills, which induced m...Benjamin Murray [n/a]Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Dennis Power: 'Q. Do you ever read the "Weekly Dispatch" newspaper? A. I do not think any thing of it—I do read it occasionally—I ...Edward Smith [n/a]Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: John Kissick: 'On the 10th of November, the prisoner came into my shop, in Tottenham-court-road, and purchased half a sheet of pape...Edward Holmes [n/a]Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thank you very much for "Battle" [W. W. Gibson], but curse this nib. To me it is not as good as Housman; some things appeal to me for setting, but not strongly[.] Th...Ivor Bertie Gurney Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] read "Christian's own Account of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty, commanded by Captain Bligh, of which he was the Ringleader" in The Weekly En...William Wordsworth Weekly Entertainer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"The suffragette, Annie Kenney (b.1879), looking back to her girlhood working in a Lancashire factory recalls ... going shares in a weekly girls' paper, 'full of wild rom...Annie Kenney and co-workers weekly girls' paperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thanks for sending the socks and gloves received yesterday, and for the letter which came the day before. The socks are quite the thing, and the gloves came in goo...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Weekly NewsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshopWilliam CobbettWeekly Political RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter William CobbettWeekly Political RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'C[oleridge] consulted ... [the Weekly Political Register] while working on the Friend ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge William CobbettWeekly Political Register, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured disc...Samuel Bamford William CobbettWeekly RegisterPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Marcus Clarke commenced in this day's Weekly Times a series of articles under the title of "The Wicked World" or Melbourne [?] & Melbourne Life. The Article to-day descr...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Weekly TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Weep not for Those'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].Mary Groom Thomas MooreWeep Not for ThoseUnknown
1850-1899After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he had written. We were an eager, attentive audience, an...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonWeir of HermistonManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'My father's first meeting with the Princess of Wales took place at Mrs Greville's in Chester Square. The Princess asked him to read the "Welcome to Alexandra." When he h...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonWelcome to AlexandraUnknown
1900-1945'I have spent the day mostly in reading Wellington's Army, by Oman, one of the most interesting books I have read. I am awfully bucked with it. The day has passed u...Robert Dunlop Smith Charles OmanWellington's Army, 1809-1814Print: Book
1900-1945'No change, every bit as bad as yesterday, nothing but rain and mist ... I wrote the rest of the morning in my tent, and in the afternoon continued reading Wellingt...Robert Dunlop Smith Charles OmanWellington's Army, 1809-1814Print: Book
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1900-1945		Some considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German throughout. Vernon Lee Theodor BillrothWer ist musikalisch?Print: Book


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