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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 am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa Clinton [description of Court of Haiti]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][description of the Court of Haiti]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some descriptions of West Indies.'John Cole [unknown][descriptions of the West Indies]Print: Book
1900-1945'. . . he was reading Gaboriau's detective fiction enthusiastically at this time, and makes several polite acknowledgements to him in the text itself, as well as in his j...Arnold Bennett Gaboriau[detective fiction]Print: Book
1900-1945'My husband usually buys the penguin books. They're cheap and easy to carry about and afterwards he gives them away to the Forces. He's working very hard and seems to der... unknown[detective fiction]Print: Book
1900-1945'Detective stories and thrillers are by far the most numerous, in fact at the moment are all the fiction I seem to read... After reading them I always wonder why I read t... [unknown][detective novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'Norman Nicholson [unknown][detective stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pure pleasure all her life'.Elizabeth Bowen [unknown][detective stories]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... [unknown][detective thrillers]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][detective thrillers]Print: Book
1800-1849Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teacher he wanted to use the position to convince others,... [n/a][devotional texts]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening Harry & I read for a long time together while mamma amused herself with the piano.'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][dialogue?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Harry & I read for a long time together. Harry is beginning to understand what he reads & takes a fair part in Dialogue Reading.'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [n/a][dialogue]Print: Book
1850-1899'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart ...John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][dialogue]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading today some of my journals and indeed find them so horribly stupid that it did not encourage me to continue them but as I hope that I shall soon have ...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Elizabeth Wynne[diaries]Manuscript: diary
1900-1945'After a long time, I felt impelled to read through this book again in the hopes of finding some clues.' [AW has fallen for a young man, after a long time feeling 'immune...Antonia White Antonia White[diaries]Manuscript: Codex, notebook
1900-1945'It's the old thing which came up so clearly in analysis as I see reading through these notes - the [italics] keeping something inside '[end italics].'Antonia White Antonia White[diaries]Manuscript: Codex, notebook
1900-1945'I have been reading again the notes I made this time last year about Basil. Somehow more truth and less distortion gets into these notebooks than into anything else.'Antonia White Antonia White[diary notebooks]Manuscript: Codex, notebook
1900-1945'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my...Tom Hopkinson Antonia White[diary notebook]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my...Antonia White Tom Hopkinson[diary notebook]Manuscript: Unknown


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