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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
 
1900-1945‘Your parcels have arrived … You have my deepest assurances that the pleasure caused by your kindness has been considerable…. The reason I dared to ask for all these ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Walt Whitman(Poems)Print: Book
1900-1945‘We are on a long march and I’m writing this on the chance of getting it off; so you should know I received your papers and also your letter … The Poetry Review you s...Isaac Rosenberg Walt Whitman'Beat! Beat! Drums!'Print: Book
1800-1849'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, ... On a foreign strand! O Caledonia! Stern and wild, ...'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter WilsonMemoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De FoePrint: Book
1850-1899James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed b...Walter Bagehot Walter Bagehot'The emotion of Conviction'Unknown
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Walter BesantTo Call Her MinePrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Walter BesantKatherine ReginaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Walter BesantSelf or BearerPrint: Book
1850-1899"'At a critical juncture', as she put it [in her autobiography] ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] read a novel which appealed directly to her combined desires for independe...Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Walter BesantChildren of GibeonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 19th August ?For faith and Freedom? ? (Walter Besant)'. Gerald Moore Walter BesantFor Faith and FreedomPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Walter Besant Print: Unknown
1900-1945'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Walter BesantThe Orange GirlPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way, what an admirable book is All Sorts and Conditions of Men. I have rarely read anything with greater sympathy ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter BesantAll Sorts and Conditions of MenPrint: Book
1900-1945'The weather is perfectly ideal and it’s a country holiday to be here [i.e., picnicking in a meadow 1 mile from Talbot House]; the only things we left behind of val...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton Walter BesantThe Golden ButterflyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Bell of St Paul's'Sarah Good Walter BesantThe Bell of St Paul'sPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies'Sarah Good Walter BesantThe Eulogy of Richard JefferiesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter BirchA Sermon on the Prevalence of Infidelity and Enthu...Print: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by...Walter de la Mare Walter de la Mare[five poems]Unknown
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.Hilary Spalding Walter de la MareArabiaPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Walter de la MarePeacock PiePrint: Book


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