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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
 
1800-1849‘I dined yesterday at Rydal [Mount] ... I read ‘Yarrow Revis[ited]’ - and some of the new Poems - very sweet, but can’t talk about them here, for I’ve more to say than ...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I hope Mr. Wordsworth feels some consolation in the complete victory of his poetic fame. He may at least feel assured, that no Great Poet ever lived to see his name of...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘Mr. Wordsworth looks older but keeps up his spirits wonderfully; his character, like his poetry, is much softened by age. I know not how Derwent [Coleridge] can think ...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘...I think I perceive in Wordsworth’s last volume [Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems], a decided inclination to the playful, the elegant and the beautiful; with an alm...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Writing to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814, Dorothy Wordsworth gives transcription of version of William Wordsworth, "Yarrow Visited". Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthYarrow VistedManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945‘A poor, miserable autobiographer naturally desires to make his personality as interesting to the reader as it appears to himself. I feel this strongly in reading o...William Henry Hudson Sergei AksakoffYears of ChildhoodPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with some illustrative readings from one or two of the earl...Ernest E. Unwin anon.York Miracle CyclePrint: Book
1900-1945'Woman, 55, middle class. Reads Times, Yorkshire Post. Likes best 'Society news and editorials when I agree with them.' Reason:' Well, I'm like that'. Spends most time ... Yorkshire PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Among 200 reviews and notices, another clipping from the "Yorkshire Post" remarked on the astonishing persistence with which Winifred remained "news" when so many writer...Vera Brittain Yorkshire PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In a 'Yorkshire Post' article he subsequently described his three days on Willkie's campaign train, with its eleven cars and freight of one hundred politicians, journali...Vera Brittain Yorkshire PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent George Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: 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 George Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene Jan 23rd 1931
S A Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 After supper Bernard Shaw’s “You never Can te...
George Burrow Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene Jan 23rd 1931
S A Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 After supper Bernard Shaw’s “You never Can te...
Sylvanus A. Reynolds Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene Jan 23rd 1931
S A Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 After supper Bernard Shaw’s “You never Can te...
Howard Smith Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene Jan 23rd 1931
S A Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 After supper Bernard Shaw’s “You never Can te...
Reginald H. Robson Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene Jan 23rd 1931
S A Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 After supper Bernard Shaw’s “You never Can te...
Fraser Mitchell Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene Jan 23rd 1931
S A Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 After supper Bernard Shaw’s “You never Can te...
Mary Reynolds Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene Jan 23rd 1931
S A Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 After supper Bernard Shaw’s “You never Can te...
Margot Reynolds Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene Jan 23rd 1931
S A Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 After supper Bernard Shaw’s “You never Can te...
Janet Rawlings Bernard ShawYou Never Can TellPrint: Book



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