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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
 
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edward Reynolds 'When our Emmanuell from his Throne came down'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Edward ReynoldsWhen our Emmanuell from his Throne came downPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Accurate transcript of complete text, probably from The Improvisatrice.member of Carey/Maingay groupLaetitia LandonWhen Should Lovers Breathe Their Vows?Unknown
1850-1899'My discouragement is from many causes: among others the re-reading of my Italian story. Forgive me, Colvin, but I cannot agree with you; it seems green fruit to me, if n...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonWhen the Devil Was Well. Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'We are much interested in the view taken by Mr. Norris in his book "When will the Lord return" that His coming is indicated by Scripture to be about 1918.'Albert Ruskin Cook Harold NorrisWhen Will Our Lord Return? Prophetic Times and War...Print: Book
1800-1849To Jane Whene'er I see those smiling eyes... [the 'transcript' does not follow the original to the letter]member of Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreWhene'er I see Those Smiling EyesUnknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905: 'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordinary that it is as amusing as it is. It is a queer k...Leonard Woolf E. M. ForsterWhere Angels Fear to TreadPrint: Book
1900-1945'[George Macaulay] Trevelyan wrote to Leonard Woolf (December 1905 [...]) "I wonder whether you will have seen E. M. Forster's novel 'Where Angels Fear to Tread': it is w...George Macaulay Trevelyan E. M. ForsterWhere Angels Fear to TreadUnknown
1900-1945'Have had good luck with a Library book. Managed to get Where Love and Friendship Meet by Mrs Belloc Lowndes. It is the latest story of the Belloc family, and present...Vere Hodgson Marie Belloc LowndesWhere Love and Friendship DweltPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Please send Gillette blades, and obtain a reserve of 12! Have just read a wonderful book by R. H. Benson: "Where no Fear Was", a collection of spiritual Essays. Why ...Wilfred Owen A. C. BensonWhere No Fear Was: A Book about FearPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Ian FraserWhereas I was BlindPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Julian Bell, 14 November 1936: 'Politics are still raging faster and fiercer [...] Leonard is trying to convince the labour party that the policy o...Leonard Woolf Bertrand RussellWhich Way to Peace?Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Alexander WoolcotWhile Rome BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819: 'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim and contradiction I have just read them'. Arabella Moulton-Barrett anon Whim and Contradiction: A TalePrint: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas HoodWhims and OdditiesPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Alice Duer MillerWhite Cliffs, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'In compliance with frequent entreaties I took the MSS [of The White Doe of Rylstone] to [Charles] Lamb's to read it, or part of it, one evening. There unluckily I found...William Wordsworth William WordsworthWhite Doe of Rylstone, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of whi...William Wordsworth William WordsworthWhite Doe of Rylstone, ThePrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1900-1945'Read "White Fang" by Jack London."William Thomas Jack LondonWhite FangPrint: Book
1800-1849Extract from The Whitehall Evening Post, April 1808 recording the marriage of Mary of ButtermereLydia Haskoll [n/a]White Hall Evening PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Books read] June [1914]. Life's Trivial Round
White Linen Nurse. Most bits rubbish
A passage perilous
Prisons & prisoners (suffragists)'		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Eleanor Hallowell AbbottWhite Linen Nurse, ThePrint: Book


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