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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'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most o...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. a little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides'William Windham John Milton[poetry]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Fairy Queen fo...Charles Lamb John Milton[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - it is not fair. - He has Fame & Profit enough as a Poet, and should not be taking the bread out of ...Jane Austen Walter Scott[Poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon the Subject: it is rather unmerciful, but I must bear...George Crabbe [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has...Antonia White [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'chiefly was I charm'd and ravish'd with the Sweets of Poetry; all my Hours were dedicated to the Muses; and from a Reader, i quickly became a Writer'.Laetitia van Lewen [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing ...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'Of all the People I ever heard read Verse in my whole Life the best, the most perfect reader is the Bishop of Peterboro'.'John Hinchcliffe [poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He ...Zoe Procter Alfred, Lord Tennyson[poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hou...Zoe Procter Edward Bulwer Lytton[poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great privilege and I waited eagerly for her description ...Zoe Procter George Meredith[poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter [Italian poets][poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp [poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as sh...Charles Evans Edmund Gosse[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as sh...Ernest E. Unwin Edmund Gosse[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members as follows and those who read entered very charmingl...members of XII Book ClubWilliam Butler Yeats[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.'George Gordon Lord Byron [Poets]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on inspiration for an ultimately abandoned novel: 'There was a police report, during that winter [?1837], -- very brief, -- only one short paragraph, -...Harriet Martineau unknown[Police report]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Since the war began I have read less because my working hours have been lengthened and ARP duties and various social activities leave me less leisure. My reading howver ... unknown[political and social books]Print: Book


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