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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'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects o...Francis Pollard [catalogue of Blake's canterbury Pilgrims pictures...Print: Book
1600-1699'At noon dined well, and my brother and I to write over once more with my own hand my Catalogue of books, while he reads to me.'John Pepys Samuel Pepys[Catalogue of books]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alphabetical; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [Samuel and John] Pepys[Catalogue of his books]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'We got the new catalogue from Library, The number of subscribers 118, there are near 2400 Books. [In Margin] Printed by Pierson'Joseph Hunter [unknown][Catalogue of the Sheffield Subscription Library]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'There is a most amiable Archbishop, who is very anxious for my conversion to the "[italics] true [end italics] faith". He gives me all sorts of books to read'.Charlotte Bury [Catholic books]Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me perceive the enormous intellectual pre-eminence of New...Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1850-1899'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Helbeck of Bannisdale"].Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1850-1899'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house she rented in Kent], giving her that grip of detail...Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1900-1945'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemne...Antonia White [unknown][Catholic texts]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Letter to Boswell] Dr. Webster's informations were much less exact and much less determinate than I expected: they are, indeed, much less positive than, if he can trus...Samuel Johnson Alexander Webster[census of Scotland]Manuscript: Codex
1600-1699'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T. Trice; which I read, and like it.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][chancery Bill drawn against Trice]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Many thanks for the 3 chapters - they look entrancing, but I haven't had time to do more than glance at them as I've had a sitter all day'.Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox Ford[chapters from 'It Was the Nightingale']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

The following essays wer...		Ethel C. Stevens Anne Thackeray Ritchie[Chapters from some memoirs / Chapters from Some U...Print: Book
1900-1945'On the whole in these casual ventures I go no further than about 2/6 a book, and most of my reading comes from such editions as Penguin, Pelican, Evergreen, Everyman etc... unknown[cheap editions of books]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'John Ruskin [unknown][chemistry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies [unknown][children's books]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their very best love to you. One of them, 4 and a half, sa...two sons of Anne RomillyMaria Edgeworth[children's books]Print: Book
1900-1945'When I was about six, she decided that the time had come for me to learn to read. And that was when she made her mistake. Instead of merely sitting me down in front of P...Rosemary Sutcliff unknown[children's book]Print: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher [unknown][children's comics]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Plays for Children". Those of Madame de Genlis have alw...Anne Romilly Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis[children's plays]Print: Book


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