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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'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham William Harrison Ainsworth[works]Print: Book
1850-1899 'Laura, who by this time was reading "Old St Paul's" at home, simply romped through this Little-Go'Laura Thompson William Harrison AinsworthOld St Paul'sPrint: Book
1800-1849'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Preface to Rookwood; if the weather had been finer I i...Charles Dickens William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel William Harrison AinsworthWindsor CastlePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 January 1840: 'I have been reading "Jack Sheppard," and have been struck by the great danger, in these times, of represen...Mary Russell Mitford William Harrison AinsworthJack Sheppard: A RomancePrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp William Harrison AinsworthBoscobel Print: Book
1850-1899'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'.George Eliot [pseud.] William Heinrich (?) RiehlunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by...William Henry Davies William Henry Davies'Love's Silent Hour' and three other poemsUnknown
1900-1945‘You mention Ian Hay and MacGill. I had a glance at Ian Hay, and wished I could read it, but had to leave it. What I saw was very good indeed … By the way have you ev...Ivor Bertie Gurney William Henry DaviesAutobiography of a Super-TrampPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your book—my book [Davies, "Child Lovers"] has just arrived, and it is finished. Only to increasing certainty that Davies was once an exquisite poet—of which time he...Ivor Bertie Gurney William Henry DaviesChild LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Well … our gallant regiment … have been in it a damn sight more than ever they expected, by the Lord. We are hardened veterans, fed up to the neck, muddy to the eyes...Ivor Bertie Gurney William Henry DaviesChild LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events o...Rosamund Wallis William Henry HudsonFar Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events o...Ernest E. Unwin William Henry HudsonBook of a Naturalist, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events o...Ursula Unwin William Henry HudsonHampshire DaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events o...Ernest E. Unwin William Henry Hudson[naturalist writing]Print: Book
1900-1945'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events o...Charles Evans William Henry Hudson[writing on Hampshire villages]Print: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow read a short paper of H.M. Wallis on some points in ...Charles Evans William Henry HudsonGreen Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been laid up for days and days and your volume of H[udson]'s letters was the most welcome alleviation to the worry and general horror of the situation. I think th...Joseph Conrad William Henry Hudson153 Letters from W. H. Hudson Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 31st March 1942. S. A. Reynolds in the chair. 1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. [...] 4. The...Dorothea Taylor William Henry HudsonA Shepherd’s LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His tale of woe is expressed in the most moving and natu...Eugenia Wynne William Henry Lyttelton[probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelto...Print: Unknown


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