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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
 
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both devotional and 'gallant' books, and the heart's ability...Edward Morgan Forster Jean de la Bruyere'Du Coeur'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's wife (opening 'Now, said she, I am going to rest for...Edward Morgan Forster John BunyanThe Life and Death of Mr BadmanPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include Zechariah I.ii: 'And they answered the Angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees and...Edward Morgan Forster Book of ZechariahPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir ...Edward Morgan Forster William GiffordMemoir of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William GiffordMemoir of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five British sailors' purchase of a woman sold at auction by A...Edward Morgan Forster General Sir Robert Thomas WilsonHistory of the British Expedition to EgyptPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins as 'weak men' with 'no serious influence on the gener...Edward Morgan Forster John RuskinThe Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1)Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Patrick Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, June 1853, regarding Gaskell's planned visit to Haworth: 'From what I have heard my Daughter say of you, and from the perusal of your...Patrick Bronte Elizabeth GaskellnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899Patrick Bronte to George Smith, his daughter Charlotte's publisher before her death in 1855, 26 March 1860:

'Though writing is to me now something of a tas...		Patrick Brontë William Makepeace Thackeray[Comments accompanying 'The Last Sketch — Emma, a ...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Patrick Bronte to George Smith, his daughter Charlotte's publisher before her death in 1855, 26 March 1860:

'Though writing is to me now something of a tas...		Patrick Brontë Charlotte Brontë'The Last Sketch — Emma, a Fragment of a Story by ...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Patrick Delany to Samuel Richardson, 20 December 1753: 'I have begun a second time with Sir Charles Grandison, and assure you, in the main, I am better pleased with it...Patrick Delany Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonUnknown
1800-1849Pencil drawing of Sir John Moore by 'J.G.' followed by 'On the death of Sir John Moore' [transcribes text] 'Wolfe'.Mary Dugdale John WolfeThe Burial of Sir John MooreUnknown
1900-1945Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something whi...Thomas Hardy Thomas HardypoemsUnknown
1900-1945Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something whi...Charlotte Mew Charlotte Mew"Saturday Market"Unknown
1800-1849Peter J. Manning, "Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829": "Charles Lamb, perusing the notices blazoning the annuals forthcoming in 1829, scoffed: 'Wordsworth I see has a good...Charles Lamb literary advertisementsPrint: Unknown
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 William ShakespeareunknownPrint: 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 John MiltonunknownPrint: 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 Sir Walter ScottunknownPrint: 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 William Makepeace ThackerayunknownPrint: 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 Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book


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