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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
 
1850-1899'Got up about 7A.M. had some tea & commenced to read. I read a Christian Age & some from a book by Thos Guthrie, 'Man & the Gospel' which I enjoy very much. I then ...James Bennetts Williams Thomas GuthrieMan and the GospelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Our last 3 Sundays have all been stormy and it is a great comfort to be able to read & think today. I have so often wished on the passage that Mr. Watson had his s...Jessie Scott Brown Thomas GuthrieChrist and the Inheritance of the SaintsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'.Sydney Smith Thomas HamiltonMen and Manners in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect it to have one grievious fault that of introducing ...James Hogg Thomas HamiltonYouth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...Thomas Jones Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor...Richard Pyke Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1850-1899?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I am always pleased to remember that ?Far from the mad...Leslie Stephen Thomas HardyThe Wessex PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I am always pleased to remember that ?Far from the mad...Leslie Stephen Thomas HardyFar from the madding crowdPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all...Philip Gibbs Thomas HardyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college in 1936, but they taught her nothing about sex: "Th...Margaret Wharton Thomas HardyTess of the d'UrbervillesPrint: Book
1850-1899'...[Newman] Flower as a boy read and idolized Hardy ...'Newman Flower Thomas Hardy[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-194513/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy."Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ...Eva Slawson Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi...William Ewart Gladstone Thomas Hardy Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		"But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as a critic that the less authors read of criticisms t...Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1850-1899?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say frankly that I think the sheepshearing rather long ...Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1900-1945'[Edith] Hall recalled that she discovered Thomas Hardy in a WEA class in the 1920s when "Punch and other publications of that kind showed cartoons depicting the servant ...Edith Hall Thomas HardyTess of the d'UrbervillesPrint: Book


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