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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
 
1900-1945'I have just got my French article in print: it reads quite nicely'.Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford[unknown article in French]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘The other day I read a Biography of Tennyson, which says he was unhappy, even in the midst of his fame, wealth, and domestic serenity. Divine discontent! I can quite...Wilfred Owen Anon Anon[unknown biography of Alfred, Lord Tennyson]Print: Book
1900-1945I have been rather feeble and depressed all summer, and it will probably do a lot of good to walk about the hills of Arabia. I have been reading books about it and ...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown book about Arabia]Print: Book
1900-1945Q: Did your father read? A: No. He was a poor reader. He would rather my mother read to him, I think, read him the book and tell him the plot. He would have the paper, ... [unknown books]Print: Book
1800-1849'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][Unknown newspaper - article on Wellesley Long Cha...Print: Newspaper
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
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 Petrarch[unknown oration]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She ...Hester Lynch Thrale James Grainger[unknown poem praising Young]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last m...		Margaret Dilks Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown poetical works]Unknown
1800-1849'[italics] Is [end italics] Miss Jewsbury's review shallow? It looked to me very deep, but then I know I'm easily imposed upon in the metaphysical line, and could no more...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Geraldine Jewsbury[unknown review]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I was also pained but amused at the pink, paper- bound novels that went about: I asked my neighbour to read me a paragraph, and this was it: "'Good God,' said Susann...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown romance novel]Print: Book
1900-1945It is a huge citadel, nearly a mile in length I should guess, on a low and stony ridge going east and west [...] the inscription is inside the southern gateway and ...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown Sabaean inscription at Naqb al-Hajar]Unknown
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 Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland[unknown text - letters?- presumably addressed to ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Kenneth F. Nicholson unknown [unknown texts concerning the life of André Mauroi...Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last m...		Howard Smith unknown unknown[unknown texts on the life of Shelley]Print: Unknown
1900-1945I have spent a meandering day taking last pictures in the town with the Qadhi, who read out the carved inscriptions of the tombs, and standing with upturned palms w...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown tomb inscriptions and Qu'ranic supplicati...Unknown
1850-1899?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no...Thomas Catling [unknown][unknown various titles]Print: Book
1850-1899'Well, I was at the annual dinner of my old Academy schoolfellows last night. We sat down ten, out of seventy-two.[?] I read them some verses. It is great fun: I always r...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson[unknown verses]Manuscript: Unknown, Probably sheets of paper or pages from a notebook.
1800-1849'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking Man of good Sense & a stedd[y] Believer in what he do...George Crabbe [unknown][unknown work on religious enthusiasm]Print: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson John Milton[unknown works]Print: Book


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