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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'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ...Thomas Thompson [tale of Robin Hood]Print: Book
1800-1849'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to me by Mrs Sherwood's stories on the same subject, w...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Martha Sherwood[Tales based on Church Catechism]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Macintosh June 19 1796 'At length I set up my rest under a broad spreading cedar, beside the statue of Diana which seemed to protect me. I thought of Dryden...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John Dryden[Tales from Chaucer]Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson Giovanni Boccacio[tales from the 'Decameron']Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - and Romans Chevaleresques'Mary Shelley [unknown][tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des damesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Bib. de Chevalerie'Mary Shelley [unknown][tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des damesPrint: Book
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][tales of murder and robbery]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Many of my friends are of the same opinion with you at least with regard to the tales of the Spy. Mr Walr. Scott says in a letter "If I may judge from my own feelings an...Walter Scott James Hogg[Tales published in the Spy]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Guy de Maupassant[tales: short stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'Norman Nicholson Edgar Allan Poe[Tales]Print: Book
1800-1849'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they had excited my curiosity, and led to inquiry; and, as ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Martha Sherwood[Tales]Print: Book
1850-1899'She [a Mrs Granville, nee Wheler] had been a great friend of the Miss Porters (Jane and Anna Maria) in girlhood; and it was perhaps owing to their example that she had t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mrs Granville[tales]Print: Book
1800-1849'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicate fancy and wit; too much of rosebowers and crystal ...John Ruskin Hans Christen Andersen[tales]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 73 Northcourt Avenue
Friday 28th March 1930
1. Minutes of last meeting were approved.
[...]
6. A warm message of sympathy to be s...		Robert Pollard Robert Pollard[Talkie & colour films]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 73 Northcourt Avenue
Friday 28th March 1930
1. Minutes of last meeting were approved.
[...]
6. A warm message of sympathy to be s...		Thomas C. Elliott Thomas C. Elliott[Talkie & colour films]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 4th. May 1942.
M. Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read, pronounced rather more accurate ...		[Unnamed member of the XII Book Club] Victor and Elizabeth Alexander[telegram expressing apologies for absence from a ...Print: Telegram
1900-1945'Bn. moved into Left sector. Macleod came back to "details" for a rest, and I went in as a/adjutant. Weather wet and cold. More "Strafes". Spent a very busy three days ...Robert Lindsay Mackay [n/a] [n/a][telegrams, letters, and reports]Manuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectator...Albert Ruskin Cook [telegrams]Manuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'In the afternoon, at a tennis party at Blair Castle, a bicycle orderly arrives with an urgent telegram for my battalion. Being the senior Cameronian officer present ...James Lochhead Jack [n/a] [n/a][telegram]Manuscript: telegram
1900-1945'I gave her the telegram. She, poor lady, like a good many people in those days could not read or write, she opened the envelope, looked at the message, then with f...Walter Elliott [telegram]


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