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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
 
1900-1945Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a recluse who does not read a novel a twelvemonth nowadays....Thomas Hardy Violet HuntWhite Rose of Withered LeafPrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have been good enough to send me.' Joseph Conrad Frederick O'BrienWhite Shadows in the South SeasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise ...Frank MorrisonWho Moved the StonePrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about parti...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Who's WhoPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the ...Ralph Glasser [n/a]Who's WhoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced b...George Burrow Who's WhoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'"Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read "The Whole Duty of Man", from a great part of which I could...Samuel Johnson Richard AllestreeWhole Duty of Man, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Homer Whole WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . every evening after dinner he read "Whom God Hath Joined" . . . to Agnes and me. [Eleanor Green] I remember objecting to the daughter in the book, giving her fathe...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettWhom God Hath JoinedManuscript: or published book?
1900-1945'Your work on my novel ['Whom God Hath Joined'.] is now over, I am thankful to say, & so is mine too, nearly.... Had to read it aloud to the sex. So nice & cheerful to r...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettWhom God Hath JoinedPrint: Book
1850-1899'Why are we Dissenters?'Sarah Good Eustace Rogers ConderWhy are we Dissenters? Three LecturesPrint: Book
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due...Lucy Maud Montgomery Wide Awake magazine - serialised storyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Charles Brockden BrownWieland; or, the transformationPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christoph Martin WielandWielands Neueste GedichtePrint: Book
1800-1849'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'Percy Bysshe Shelley John FletcherWife for a Month, APrint: Book
1800-1849'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'Mary Shelley Francis BeaumontWife for a Month, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild Asses Skin. A general discussion on the novel & the ...Henry Marriage Wallis Honore de BalzacWild Ass's Skin, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 September 1844: 'I have sent you Miss Pyer's volume of poems today .. & see in it an address to yourself. The subscripti...Elizabeth Barrett Catherine Smith PyerWild Flowers; or Poetic Gleanings from Natural Obj...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'Mary Shelley Lady MorganWild Irish Girl, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Warm thanks for the charming copy of "Wild Oranges" which it was a great pleasure to have in this interesting form. [...] You will be good enough to give my most friendl...Joseph Conrad Joseph HergesheimerWild OrangesPrint: Book


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