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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
 
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Samuel BoyseThe DeityPrint: Book
1850-1899'On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the Funeral Poets, I made a dash for the garden...Then ...Edmund Gosse Samuel BoyseThe DeityPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 5 September 1850:

'You sent the tragedy of "Galileo Galilei," by Samuel Brown [...] it contained, I remember, passages of...		Charlotte Brontë Samuel BrownGalileo GalileiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished second volume of Burder. Began Gibbon's account of his own life.'Benjamin Newton Samuel BurderOriental Customs:or an illustration of the sacredPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burders Illustration of Scripture, one volume.'Benjamin Newton Samuel BurderOriental Customs: or an illustration of the sacredPrint: Book
1850-1899Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'... one day I picked up a copy of Samuel Butler's Note Books and read the followi...Neville Cardus Samuel ButlerNote BooksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I came home and read Hudibras and William Byrd ...'William Richard Grahame Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the comple...Thomas A. Jackson Samuel Butler[poems complete works]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of "Hudibras", which I buy not but borrow to read, to see if it be a...Samuel Pepys Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to compare me to Hudibras, "Who could not ope/ His mouth bu...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett Samuel ButlerThe Way of all FleshPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice Meynell's life out of my mouth. One rather craves bri...Virginia Woolf Samuel ButlerNotebooksPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am extremely busy & my novel isn?t getting a fair chance. I solace myself with the "note books" of Samuel Butler.' Arnold Bennett Samuel ButlerNotebooksPrint: Book
1700-1799[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his ...Jonathan Swift Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905: 'Elizabeth [employer] has lent me Erewhon which I am enjoying.'Edward Morgan Forster Samuel ButlerErewhon; or, Over the RangePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not onl...Sydney Larkin Samuel Butler[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] "Hudibras" affords a strong proof how much hold political principles had then upon the minds of men. There is in "Hudibras" a great deal of bullion which ...Samuel Johnson Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Edith Goadby Samuel Butler[‘Notes’]Unknown
1900-1945'It was from [my father, a policeman] that I acquired the habit, which I have never been able to shake off, of reading in bed; and one of my most vivid recollections is o...Desmond Malone Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1900-1945'The mess was ... the only place where, that bitter winter, one could read in comfort ... One Sunday afternoon I took down with me a book I had just bought—Butler's...Herbert Edward Read Samuel ButlerErewhon RevisitedPrint: Book


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