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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
 
1900-1945Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.'Virginia Woolf Sir Edward MarshA Number of PeoplePrint: Book
1850-1899'The thing ["A Paheka"] in "West.Gaz." is excellent, excellent.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA PahekaPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to William Dean Howells, 10 August 1901: 'Ever since receiving and reading your elegant volume of short tales ["A Pair of Patient Lovers"]-- the arrival of wh...Henry James William Dean HowellsA Pair of Patient LoversPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 31 October 1850:

'I showed papa the "Paper Lantern"; he was greatly amused with it, and would like to see the whole when ...		Patrick Brontë 'Will o' the Wisp' A Paper Lantern for PuseyitesUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 3 December 1850:

'Your Will o' the Wisp is a very pleasant and witty sprite, and though not venomous his pungency may be ...		Charlotte Brontë 'Will o' the Wisp' (pseud.) A Paper Lantern for PuseyitesPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read th...Samuel Johnson Henry HammondA Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of...Print: Book
1700-1799I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'.Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Some of Dr Clark's paraphras.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I gave her E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India". She- "I'm not sure, but I believe I've read it. I don't really remember." Rest of conversation not recorded, above remar...E. M. ForsterA Passage to IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spender cut his tobacco allowance down to one pipeful a day in order to take with him Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and Forster's "A Passage to India". These were a great bo...Members of Shaksgam ExpeditionE.M. ForsterA Passage to IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1...Winifred Agnes Moore Edna FerberA Peculiar TreasurePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman O.F. WaltonA Peep Behind the ScenesPrint: Book
1850-1899The Lord Mayor's Show. 'The boys always went ... They always brought home for me a little book, that opened out to nearly a yard of coloured pictures, displaying all the ...M.V, Hughes anonA Penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's ShowPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Richardson's "Philosophical Analysis" of some of Shakespear's Characters. The design is happy, and, upon the whole, ingeniously executed...'Thomas Green William RichardsonA philosophical analysis and illustration of some ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished a cursory perusal of Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeA philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ide...Print: Book


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