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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott Dodsley[Annual Register - extract of Crabbe's 'The Villag...Print: Serial / periodical
'Then followed the reading of 7 essays. They were supposed to be anonymous & were certainly read withot any author's name being attached but the inquisitive by internal o...Members of XII book Club [Members of XII Book Club][anonymous essays]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel'George Eliot [pseud] Goldwin Smith[answer to Mansel]Print: Book
1600-1699'This morning as I was in bed, one brings me T. Trices answer to my bill in Chancery from Mr Smallwood, which I am glad to see, though afeared it will do me hurt.'Samuel Pepys T Trice[answer to Pepys's bill]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are several relevant books in his library, including a few mar...Wilfred Owen [anthologies of French poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help W...Oscar Wilde [Anthology of all surviving Greek and Latin poetry...Print: Book
1850-1899'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end italics] bad ones; & the parcel contains this book sent ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][anthology of laudatory sonnets]Print: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2....		Margaret Dilks Muriel Stevens[apologies for absence from a meeting of the XII B...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 6th June ’42 A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. Apologies for absence were read from Muriel Stevens and Mary Stansfield
2....		Margaret Dilks Mary Stansfield[apologies for absence from a meeting of the XII B...Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the...Samuel Johnson Oliver Goldsmith[apology for beating a bookseller]Unknown
1900-1945Harold and I are the subject of song in Hureidha at present. Old Abdulla the watch-mender came some evenings ago to present me with an ode in my honour. He had it o...Freya Stark Abdulla The watch-mender of Huraidha[Arabic qasida (praise poem) in praise of Freya St...Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945When I reached home I found a man with a qasida in praise of Harold in his hand. 'He has broken the horns of the wicked', it says. I wonder if this has any relation...Freya Stark Anon Anon[Arabic qasida (praise poem) in praise of Harold I...Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Fog in the early morning, sun came out after lunch. Quite chilly. Read Arabic and "Les Misérables".' Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[Arabic texts]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I hard one read of ardentons book, and after I talked with Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][ardenton's book]Print: Book
1600-1699'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books and Timber Rule.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][Arithmetic books]Print: Book
1900-1945'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians...Douglas Herbert Bell [Army Communique]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I've had [underlined] one [end underlining] violent set-too with Douglas on the subject of Gertrude Stein. He said her work was "purest bosh" & thought it "a shame" that...Douglas Cole Getrude Stein[art criticism]Print: Book
1850-1899'You will already have seen my word on Japanese Art. I read it a little differently, but your view of their fidelity to natural impressions is true, as far as it goes.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley[article about Japanese art]Print: proof
1800-1849Harriet Martineau describes reading, on Good Friday 1833, a 'forthcoming' number of the "Quarterly Review" containing a negative review of her work, lent to her by a cler...Harriet Martineau unknown[Article attacking Harriet Martineau]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A-propos of Authors - This evening at tea, Miss Ramsay (our governess) inquired at me if I had read that affecting representation of the Calamities of Literary men, in t...Thomas Carlyle Thomas Murray[article entitled 'An Affecting Occurrence']Print: Serial / periodical


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