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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
 
1800-1849Tuesday, 1 August 1826: 'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me about a dozen and dipping into them scrambled throug...Walter Scott Wentworth SmithThe Hector of Germany, or The PalsgravePrint: Book
1900-1945'During these days he was reading two books with enjoyment: Lionel Trilling's Matthew Arnold and Werner Jaeger's Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture, which had just arri...John Buchan Werner JaegerPaideia: The Ideals of Greek CulturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish St Leon.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Wiiliam GodwinSt. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Caleb Williams.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Wiiliam GodwinThings as they are; or the Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1800-1849'[She thanks them for the great pleasure two of their works had given her 'by their charming descriptions of natural scenery and the thoughts and feelings arising from th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Wiiliam Howitt Print: 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 Wilfred MasseyCrime at the ClubPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Wilfred Owen[war poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Wilfred Owen[war poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put togeth...William Soutar Wilfred OwenStrange MeetingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting wer...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Wilfred Owen[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting were...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Wilfred Owen[unspecified poetical works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting wer...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Wilfred Owen[war poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
[...]
5. The subject was a provocative one “Modern Poetry” & we...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Wilfred Owen[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Somebody sent me a little book called "Aunt Sarah and the War" the other day. Many thanks and jolly good—whoever it was! Send me the "Times" every now and again—wi...Arthur Oscar Hornung Wilfrid MeynellAunt Sarah and the WarPrint: Book
1900-1945

'I return here the first volume with many thanks. It is very curious reading, but somehow one cannot take it very seriously.'


[Hence follow thirteen li...

Joseph Conrad Wilfrid Scawen BluntMy Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events,1...Print: Book
1900-1945'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, "The Shame of the XIXth Century" and expres...Alfred Russel Wallace Wilfrid Scawen BluntThe Shame of the Nineteenth Century: A Letter Addr...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Thank you very much for "Battle" [W. W. Gibson], but curse this nib. To me it is not as good as Housman; some things appeal to me for setting, but not strongly[.] Th...Ivor Bertie Gurney Wilfrid Wilson GibsonBattlePrint: Book
1900-1945‘ … thank you immensely for "Friends" [W. W. Gibson], an unforgettable book … My town-pride received a shock yesterday—and my pocket. Cridland and I went to Salisbury...Ivor Bertie Gurney Wilfrid Wilson GibsonFriendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lichtenstein'Sarah Good Wilhelm HauffLichtensteinPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay muc...Grace Macaulay Wilhelm HeyFunfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig FabelnPrint: Book


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