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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
 
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][treatises on algebra and geometry]Print: Book
1850-1899'As Father and Betty were talking so much about it, I am reading "Martin Chuzzlewit" again.'Emily Lytton Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson Jean Racine Print: Book
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson Jean Racine Print: Book
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson Moliere  Print: Book
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson Victor Hugo Print: Book
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson MauriceEustace ConwayPrint: Book
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson John SterlingArthur ConingsbyPrint: Book
1850-1899'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regr...Margaret Oliphant Graham TraversMona Maclean: Medical StudentPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regr...Margaret Oliphant F Marion Crawford Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Florence Bell (and Mrs Herbert Richmond, née Elsa Bell)The Cat and Fiddle Book: Eight dramatised nursery ...Print: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Elizabeth von ArminVeraPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Elizabeth von ArminVeraPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell May Sinclair [pseud. Mary Amelia St. Clair]Mr Waddington of WyckPrint: Book
1800-1849'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown]Memoires de l'Europe sous NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have...Louisa, Lady Stuart Emmanuel Las CasesMemorial de Sainte Helene: Journal of the Private ...Print: Book
1850-1899'As for Sordello, I read it four times in youth, and never could make out who was speaking; yet I liked it - as one likes the moon, I fancy'.Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as it is; as Author, - if I had written it, - I am shy ...Alex Innes Shand George T ChesneyThe Private SecretaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As for your paper it is charming.'Oscar Wilde J. M. StoddartStoddart's ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As for yourself — I have been dwelling with you mentally for several days between the covers of your book [...].' Joseph Conrad Bertrand RussellAnalysis of MindPrint: Book


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