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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 the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age o...Charles Manby Smith Bishop WatsonApology for the biblePrint: Book
1900-1945'As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, drinking sample bottles of liqueur from Paris-Plage o...Vera Brittain Gilbert FrankauThe City of FearPrint: Book
1850-1899'As the writer of the recent article upon you in the 'Academy' I venture upon the intrusion of telling you personally that I was much impressed by your remarkable novel...Arnold Bennett Allan Noble MonkhouseA DeliverancePrint: Book
1900-1945'As to "Bushwhacking" you know I prize it above anything that may be written in acknowledgement of a presentation volume.[...]The book I consider as the best expression o...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordBushwhacking and Other SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945'As to "Charlotte" the genuineness of its conception the honesty of its feeling make that work as welcome as a breath of fresh air to a breast oppressed by all the fumes ...Joseph Conrad David MeldrumThe Conquest of CharlottePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As to "The Hist[ory] of the British Army" it is "tout bonnement admirable!". No other phrase can do justice to it.' Joseph Conrad John William FortescueHistory of the British Army: Extracts from British...Print: Book
1900-1945'As to applicants having received better treatment from Poor Law Guardians than from the Fund, My authority was a detailed article dealing with the condition of affairs i...Arnold Bennett Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'As to books, we (in this house) are very old-fashioned; and I am only now indulging in Froude's "Elizabeth". I did not mean to read it, - being disgusted by his dishones...Harriet Martineau James Anthony FroudeHistory of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'As to curious MSS, there is no such thing here; no varieties, but dull charters of religious houses, and canting lives of Presbyterian ministers. whatever the Bannatyne ...Mr Sharpe [volumes published by the Bannatyne club]Print: Book
1800-1849'As to curious MSS, there is no such thing here; no varieties, but dull charters of religious houses, and canting lives of Presbyterian ministers. whatever the Bannatyne ...Mr Sharpe [various MS letters, religious charters and poems]Manuscript: various
1800-1849'As to Miss Pickering, if there shd be anybody in the world who makes a Miss Austen of her, or a Scott of her, that body cannot be famous for his or her literary judgemen...Elizabeth Barrett [Miss] Pickering[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also...John Marsh [unknown][various]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also...Elizabeth Marsh [unknown][various]Print: Book
1700-1799'As to the little knowledge of literature I possess, I acquired that by dint of application. In the beginning I attached myself very closely to the study of divinity and ...James Lackington anonvarious on divinity and moral philosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'As to the novel I think that between us two, if I tell you that I consider it "tout à fait chic" you will understand perfectly how much that "phrase de l'atelier" means ...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox FordSome Do Not... Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolDante Alighieri Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolWilliam Blake Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolWilliam Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolEmily Bronte Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolChristina Rossetti Print: Book


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