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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
 
1900-1945'10 a.m. Service. Read Mrs Murphy & also a Rolling Stone by BM Croker. Walked a little. All's well.'William Thomas Bithia M. CrokerA Rolling StonePrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Francis Marion CrawfordA Roman SingerPrint: Book
1850-1899"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r...William Ewart Gladstone Marie CorelliA Romance of Two WorldsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 3 October. I am reading "A Room of One's Own". Most delightful and profound - if I had the time I would write an essay about life in the WRNS'Barbara Pym Virginia WoolfA Room of One's OwnPrint: Book
1900-1945From Appendix ('Biographical Outlines of Persons Most Frequently Mentioned') to The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol.4: 'Reading V[irginia] W[oolf]'s A Room of One's Own fired...Ethel Smyth Virginia WoolfA Room of One's OwnPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 25 November 1908: 'I have been reading Forster's last book [A Room with a View] & as last year, at about the same time, it has just s...Leonard Woolf E. M. ForsterA Room with a ViewPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		A Satyrical View of London, by J. Corry. 1 vol. The above vol. is a tolerable production; it treats principally of fashion, beaux, belles, London tradesmen, quack doctor...Ellen Weeton John CorryA Satirical View of London at the Commencement ofPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. Fletcher had just published ...'Edward Morgan Forster Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and FletcherA School History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“A Search after Happiness H. More” beginning “Expect not perfect happiness below…’Catherine Austen Hannah MoreA Search after HappinessUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward BrerewoodA Second Treatise of the SabbathPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph RitsonA Select Collection of English SongsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Selina Hastings, Countess of HuntingdonA Select Collection of HymnsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Went to the library. Saw in Volume 4th of Nichol's "Select Collections of Poems" a poetical account of the monuments in Westminster Abbey, written with a considerable de...Joseph Hunter John NicholsA Select Collection of Poems; with notes (Vol IV)Print: Unknown
1850-1899I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a little work in the mornings. Margaret Oliphant A.P. StanleyA Selection from the writings of Dean StanleyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?on the Thursday evening following I went to my fathers to the meeting with an intention to stay out all night with a person that was not of very good Character so I went...Joseph Mayett John RipponA Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors Includi...Print: Book
1700-1799Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'." Frances Burney Laurence SterneA Sentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ...Harriet Grove Lawrence SterneA Sentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1850-1899'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It...John Masefield Laurence SterneA Sentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Laurence SterneA Sentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes Edmund Ferrars's annotations to his copy of Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey: "A note on the title page indicates that Ferrars acquired this two...Edmund Ferrars Laurence SterneA Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. B...Print: Book


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