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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'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading...George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilkie CollinsHousehold Words - "Perils of certain English Priso...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime?Robert Louis Stevenson Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I've been reading Wilkie Collins: Fosco is very great, very great; I envy Fosco, I had rather been Fosco than R.L.S.'Robert Louis Stevenson Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1900-1945'Train was very full. . . . I was fortified with sandwiches, apples from Brede, some knitting and a Wilkie Collins novel.'Vere Hodgson Wilkie Collins[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and examined a piece of Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Will Hewer[piece of Latin, practice translation probably]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Observe in the same number, how Will. J. Sharman girds at your poor friend ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Will. J. Sharmanarticle in Young FolksPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.Herbert Ernest Bates Willa Cather[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Willa CatherDeath Comes for the ArchbishopPrint: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807....William Wordsworth Willam Blake[lyrics]Print: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807....Mary Wordsworth Willam Blake[lyrics]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'George Eliot Willhelmine von HillernEin Arzt der SeelePrint: Book
1800-1849'I cannot but urge on all those who are commencing their academic course, the natural study of his delightful work on natural Theology' [p.88] [And more references & comm...Adam Sedgwick William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849[This section is a strong attack on the utilitarian principles explained in Paley's work.]Adam Sedgwick William PaleyPrinciples of Moral and Political PhilosophyPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of William Alabaster, 'Dr Alabasters verses upon Dr Reynolds & his Brother'.Elizabeth Lyttelton William AlabasterVerses upon Dr Reynolds & his BrotherPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Samuel V. Bracher William Alexander[Lines of verse concerning bees]
1900-1945'‘We were going to congratulate you on Tuesday after the play ["The Silver Box" 25 Sept 1906] but we saw you shut in by such a vast throng of eager friends tha...William Henry Hudson William Archer[review]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dic...Sylvanus A. Reynolds William Barnes'What Dick and I did'Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dic...Walter S. Rowntree William Barnes'Sky Man, the'Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dic...Florence E. Reynolds William Barnes'Ellen Brine of Allenburn'Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dic...Charles Evans William Barnes'Settle, The'Print: Book


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