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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'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrive...Edwin Muir [unknown][story]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her childhood reading in her family home: 'To be alone was never unpleasant to me. In the nursery my great pleasure was to sit by myself in ...Elizabeth Sewell unknown[Story]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Got home to tea & after tea listened to Polly who read a manuscript Miss McDermott wanted to get an opinion about. It was a very [?] thrilling story for young ladies, bu...Polly Castieau Miss McDermott[story]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obrian taking out some ballets from his pocket, which I...Samuel Pepys [unknown][street ballads]Print: Broadsheet, Handbill
1900-1945'One day when drawing our parcels we received some little cardboard packets of compressed dates as usual, but this time a small white strip of paper was pasted on the out...Gerald Featherstone Knight [strip of paper]Print: Strip of paper bearing produce information
1850-1899'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in "Dichtung und Warheit". Continued aloud Heine's "Salon". G. read Knight's studies of Shakspe...George Henry Lewes Thomas [?] Knight[studies of Shakespeare]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][studies on the Apostles]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from h...Edwin Muir [study of David Hume]Print: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32

Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved


[...]

Victor Alexander XII Book Club Book Selection Committee [Subsidiary list of books to be considered for pur...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.'John Cole [Anon][suitable readings]Print: Book
1800-1849' ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth].'William Wordsworth [summary of Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative ...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' [n/a][Sunday newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard for Sunday than I had been accustomed to. Be degree...anon [n/a][Sunday newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no paper but [James] Perry's [Morning Chronicle] and tw...George Gordon, Lord Byron various[Sunday papers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shepherding: "the difficulty was to get hold of books. T...Edwin Whitlock [unknown][Sunday School prize books]Print: Book
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford anon[superstitious doctoring book]Print: Book
1600-1699'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constable of the parish did show us the picklocks and dice ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][table-book]Manuscript: table-book
1900-1945'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touched upon the History of the County in his inimitable ...Rosamund Wallis Thomas of Reading[tale about murders in Reading]Print: Book
1700-1799'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allow his beautiful tale published in Mrs. Williams's "M...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[tale in Mrs Williams's 'Miscellanies']Print: Book
1700-1799'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ...Samuel Bamford [tale of Robin Hood]Print: Book


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