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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[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberHorace WalpoleWalpolianaPrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberSamuel PepysJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and ...Mr Upton The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and ...Mr Upton 'book'Print: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and ...Miss Moody texts including 'some memoirs' Print: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and ...William ShakespeareplaysPrint: Book
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton John Locke Print: Book
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton Friedrich von Nietzsche Print: Book
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton Henry David Thoreau Print: Book
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton Arthur Schopenhauer Print: Book
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton Karl Marx Print: Book
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849[Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842:] 'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have lately seen something of my "head work" wish me to ...James Montgomery Branwell Bronte Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:] 'It is not from affected hypocrisy that I comme...Branwell Bronte James Hogg Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:] 'It is not from affected hypocrisy that I comme...Branwell Bronte Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mor...Frances Burney Hannah MoreCoelebs in search of a wifePrint: Book
1900-1945[Campbell is describing entering a German dugout captured after a successful offensive] 'Their home was very like one of ours, maps and pictures stuck on the walls, sh...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Book
1800-1849[Carlyle apologises for not having written sooner, saying he has been waiting until he has procured a copy of Stewart Lewis' poems which he now has] 'It is imperfect, but...Thomas Carlyle Stewart Lewis[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849[Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you will not wonder that I took up the first book that ca...Thomas Carlyle [unknown][unknown novel]Print: Book
1800-1849[Carlyle transcribes a poem by John Leyden he has read in Hogg's 'Spy' and sends it to Robert Mitchell] 'Well, if I am not much deceived you will thank me, for transcribi...Thomas Carlyle John Leyden'Shout, Britons, for the Battle of Asaye'Print: Serial / periodical


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