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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'He admired Edward Lear and would spend whole evenings reading "The Nonsense Songs and Stories" and he was also very fond of the Lewis Carroll books. The verses in these ...Joseph Conrad Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AND Through the L...Print: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter po...Robert Browning Edward George Bulwer-LyttonAlice, or The MysteriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.		Frank Knight William De MorganAlice-for-short: a dichronismManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Like a black desart at th' approach of night I'll lay ...Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for LovePrint: Book
1700-1799"Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love')Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for LovePrint: Book
1700-1799Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1700-1799Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1700-1799Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1900-1945'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Row ? and rowed about it.'Winifred Agnes Moore Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western FrontPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way, what an admirable book is All Sorts and Conditions of Men. I have rarely read anything with greater sympathy ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter BesantAll Sorts and Conditions of MenPrint: Book
1900-1945'The more I read the book, the more wonderful it seems to me. It is really a great book. Arthur says, and I more than agree with him, that the passage about Pyramus and T...Edith Sitwell Sacheverall SitwellAll Summer in a Day: An Autobiographical FantasiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Christopher IsherwoodAll the ConspiratorsPrint: Book
1700-1799With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper.Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper.Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn.Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper.Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn.Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Home past 8 a fier in the Parlor. Read Mrs Behn's novels, a book of Abraham's [cut by editor].Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Made an end of the Novell [the Fair Jilt].Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1800-1849Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerably improved but I am disatisfied with myself for not...Anne Lister DesmosthenesAll the Orations of DemosthenesPrint: Book


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