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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
 
1800-1849Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel considerably improved.Anne Lister Thomas LelandAll the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into EnUnknown
1850-1899'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]All the Year RoundPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Skimpole'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensAll the Year Round [article]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Rachel FieldAll This and Heaven TooPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read no...Rachel FieldAll this and Heaven TooPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: T...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareAll's Well that Ends WellPrint: Book
1800-1849'Arrive at Venise at 2 o'clock - Read alls well that ends well'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareAll's Well That Ends WellPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards being found asleep together, with Allenby's remark ...Edward Morgan Forster A. P. WavellAllenby: Soldier and StatesmanPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried EichhornAllgemeine Bibliothek der biblischen LitteraturPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the bible - and Muller's universal History'Percy Bysshe Shelley Johannes von MullerAllgemeine GeschichtePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gotthilf Heinrich von SchubertAllgemeine NaturgeschichtePrint: Book
1800-1849'lent Miss Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields "Hazlewood Hall & Remains" & Aytons "Essays" - Got a look at Gilleads of Spaldings "Alworth Abbey" & I neve[r] saw such a heap of un...John Clare G GilleadeAllworth Abbey; or Christianity TriumphantPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'None of the periodicals shown there are alive today. There was "Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday", my favourite comic. When Father had a spot of overtime in, he used to buy a ...Joseph Stamper Charles Henry RossAlly Sloper's Half-HolidayPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman Ally Sloper's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tor...Hester Lynch Thrale Matthew PriorAlmaPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Matthew PriorAlma; or, The Progress of the MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 12 March 1827: 'I have been trying to read a new novel which I have heard praised. It is calld Almacks an[d] the author has so well succeeded in describing the...Walter Scott AlmacksPrint: Book
1600-1699'Almanzor is as fresh in my memory, as if I had visitted his Tombe but Yesterday, though it bee at least seven yeare agon since. . . . I made his Story such a one to mee,...Dorothy Osborne Robert AshleyAlmansor the Learned and Victorious King that Conq...Print: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 24th March, Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up in these periodical excitements. I neither know a...Gerald Moore Joseph ConradAlmayer's FollyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a number of readings were given to illustrate his descri...Florence Reynolds Joseph ConradAlmayer's FollyPrint: Book


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