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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
 
1850-1899Philip 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 George EliotunknownPrint: 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
1900-1945Philippa Strachey to Virginia Woolf, 30 May 1938: 'I have read [Three Guineas] with rapture -- It is what we have panted for for years and years'.Philippa Strachey Virginia WoolfThree GuineasPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): 'When I was a girl I was passionately fond of reading ... I went to stay with a friend in the country, who had by some means o...Phyllis Browne miscellaneous novelsPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by him] I begged him to give me something to read. He...Thomas DickChristian PhilosopherPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by him] I begged him to give me something to read. He...Phyllis Browne Thomas DickChristian PhilosopherPrint: Book
1850-1899Pictures from the cells at Wandsworth: 'Before leaving, on the third day of our visit, we visited the cell where the little girl was confined, whom we had seen in the pu...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Pits said he had read Hurlothrumbo to some ladies till he was mad, and they were mad, and they were all mad; Strut commended the epilogue.Samuel 'Maggoty' JohnsonHurlothrumbo
1700-1799Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner.Gertrude Savile John GayThe Beggar's OperaPrint: Book
1900-1945Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und rein wie eine flamme,' and Baudelaire's 'Hymne' ('A la...Edward Morgan Forster Stefan George'Du schlank un rein wie eine flamme'Print: Book
1900-1945Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und rein wie eine flamme,' and Baudelaire's 'Hymne' ('A la...Edward Morgan Forster Charles Baudelaire'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle')Print: Book
1900-1945Pontigny is not marked in the largest and best English atlas. But I had the wit to look for it in the 'Grand Larousse'. Arnold Bennett Grand LaroussePrint: Book
1800-1849Prisoner's defence in trial for forgery: "On reading Bell's Weekly Messager of the 25th of January last, which fell into my hands, I found the following paragraph, whi...John Hill Wagstaff Bell's Weekly MessagerPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Prisoner's defence in trial for highway robbery: "When I came home I went to a coffee-house in Long-acre and asked for the Daily Advertiser, there I saw the paragraph ...Alexander Bourk Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Prisoner's statement in trial for murder: Daniel Johncock: 'I read the Times newspaper, and read of the suicide of a young woman by taking oxalic acid'Daniel Johncock [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Brown: "I was going to the West India Dock, I had a newspaper in my handing reading of it, and when I got into the court I was...William Brown  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Thomas Vaughan: "I got up in the morning to breakfast along with the man's wife. I never went out of the parlour, only through...Thomas Vaughan  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Joseph Smith: 'There was a gentleman in the tap-room, reading the newspaper—I said, "Let me look at the paper, I wish to see an ... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Michael Benson: 'I called for a glass of ale, and paid for it; I was there a considerable time, reading the newspaper, and saw ...Michael Benson [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Professor W. Smythe to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'Your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"] quite succeeded with me, giving me a great d...Professor W. Smythe Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: Book


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