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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
 
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford [Anon] [Anon][biography of Stonewall Jackson]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a literary artist & R.H. Robson summarised the message ...Ursula Unwin Ursula Unwin[biography of Tolstoy]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they...John Mitchel [George] [Allan?][biography of Walter Scott]Print: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes [biography of William Penn]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the specimen you send me is more favourable to her talents ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[biography]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'How detestably Sir Edward Bulwer speaks of Shelley in his life of Schiller. - he thinks to gain popularity by truckling to the times - and mistakes the spirit of the tim...Mary Shelley Edward Bulwer-Lytton[biograpohical sketch in] Poems and Ballads of Sch...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] 'Colley Cibber once consulted me as to one of his birth-day Odes, a long time before it was wanted. I objected very freely to several passages. Cibber los...Colley Cibber Colley Cibber[birthday Ode]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the East End of London at that time; wading through pile...Mary Augusta Ward [blue books of statistics]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on research toward volumes in her 'Series of Tales': 'For "Ireland" and "Homes Abroad,": 'I obtained facts from Blue-books on Ireland and Colonization ...Harriet Martineau unknown[Blue-book on "Colonization"]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on research toward volumes in her 'Series of Tales': 'For "Ireland" and "Homes Abroad,": 'I obtained facts from Blue-books on Ireland and Colonization ...Harriet Martineau [Blue-book on Ireland]Print: Book
1850-1899: 'Father and mother are sitting by the fire, the one reading the Evening News [Bolton?], the other mending stockings.' [Bolton?] Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book about painting]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have seen some advertisements of Books from Ths. Hurst & Co in St Paul's Church yard...'Robert Sharp [book advertisements]Print: Advertisement
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and bet...Mary Berry Condorcet[book including discussion on population]Print: Book
1850-1899'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.George Eliot [pseud] Homer[book IV - of Iliad?]Print: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Ernest E. Unwin Harold Begbie[book of 'backstairs biographies']Print: Book
1850-1899'I judged people's social importance mainly by the length of their adventures. This idea may have come from the stable-boy, for he was my principal friend. He had...unknown unknown [book of Orange Rhymes]
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the...Jem Parsons [unknown][book of prayers]Print: Book
1600-1699'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my letters and warrants and method will be found another-g...Samuel Pepys [unknown][book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned to his old school for evening classes in chemistry, a...George Gregory [book of world history]Print: Book


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