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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'Attended a meeting of the Amateur Society in the evening when the Play to be performed was read throughout.'menHendrik ConscienceThe Poor GentlemanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Attended rehearsal a little business done amidst a great deal of noise, my companions in the performance are in general very rowdy gents, after the play had been read fo...menHendrik ConscienceThe Poor GentlemanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Attended the reading of The Poor Gentleman & was very pleased with the gentlemanly manners of most of the Amateurs. Agreed to play Gruff old Humphrey Dobbin and suppose...menHendrik ConscienceThe Poor GentlemanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona...John Allaway John Maynard Keynes Print: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona...John Allaway Alfred Marshall Print: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona...John Allaway J.A. Hobson Print: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona...John Allaway Henry George Print: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona...John Allaway Hugh Dalton Print: Book
1900-1945'Aubrey Hicks offers an illustration of how little world news reached even the best-informed workers. His father, a painter on the Rothschild estate at Tring, had attende...Aubrey Hicks Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they may bring the past when properly juxtaposed. How many...Edward Morgan Forster John AubreyThe Scandal and Credulities of John AubreyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Aucterderran, Fife: In common with the rest of Scotland, the vulgar are, for their station, literate, beyond all other nations. Puritanic and abstruse divinity come in f...the people of Auchterderran, Fife [Puritanic and abstruse divinity texts]Print: Book
1850-1899'Aug. (Grand)'Sarah Good Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'Aug. Jewish story'.Sarah Good Amy LevyReuben SachsPrint: Book
1600-1699'August 26. By reading of Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, I was convinced of my sinning against the commandments of God in many cases'.Isaac Archer James UssherA Body of DivinitiePrint: Book
1850-1899'August at Scarborough'Sarah Good Henry KingsleyRavenshoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Augustus Hare's ''Two Noble Lives'' is most entertaining and pleasant, though the letters are merely natural, and telling what happens without a spark of wit and humour....Emma Darwin Augustus J. C. HareThe Story of Two Noble Lives: being Memories of Ch...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to us, which was the height of modernity then'.Ellen Crofts Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to us, which was the height of modernity then'.Ellen Crofts (probably) William Ernest Henley Print: Book
1800-1849'Aunt Fanny [Allen] is in a rapture with ''Sartor'' and feels quite convinced that Teufelsdröckh is meant for Coleridge [...] For my part it is such very hard reading t...Emma Wedgwood Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Aunty Etty wrote of E.M. Forster, "His novel is really NOT good; and it's too unpleasant for the girls to read. I very much hope he will turn to something else".'Henrietta Darwin Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book


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