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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
 
1900-1945The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the co...Arnold Bennett Katherine MansfieldThe Samuel JosephsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the co...Arnold Bennett Mr Joiner and the BiblePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899The Lord Mayor's Show. 'The boys always went ... They always brought home for me a little book, that opened out to nearly a yard of coloured pictures, displaying all the ...M.V, Hughes anonA Penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's ShowPrint: Book
1800-1849The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray (1817-18): 'Pray send us Miss Austen's novels the moment you can. Lord Abercorn thinks them next to W. Scott's (if they [i.e...Lord Abercorn Jane AustennovelsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fi...Marquess of Abercorn 'Grecian history and antiquity'Print: Book
1800-1849The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fi...Marquess of Abercorn Henry EllisJournal of the Proceedings of the late Embassy to ...Print: Book
1800-1849The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fi...Marquess of Abercorn John Malcolm, surgeon of the AlcesteNarrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship A...Print: Book
1800-1849The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, in reponse to a gift of books: 'Lord Abercorn says he thinks your conduct with respect to sending books back that he does n...Lord and Lady AbercornJohn Malcolm, surgeon of the AlcesteNarrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship A...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime?Robert Louis Stevenson Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699
1700-1799		The mother of Carteret Rede remembered that when 'I came up into her Chamber, I found her reading Mr. John Janeway's "Life and Death"; she was all in Tears ...'Carteret Rede John JanewayLife and DeathPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer. 3 vols. by J.Cory [sic] There is nothing in this novel, or in the author's Satyrical View of London, that would induce me to waste my tim...Ellen Weeton John CorryThe Mysterious Gentleman FarmerPrint: Book
1800-1849The nineteenth-century cabinet maker William Lovett on the development of his literary and intellectual interests after joining 'The Liberals', a literary and debating as...William Lovett texts on Christian religionPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper books on historyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper foreign language grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and Burns whilst on '"solitary walks on summer evenings"...Benjamin Brierley George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book


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