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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'climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. "You'll find all about the Antilles there", he said, and left me with "Tom Cr...Edmund Gosse Michael ScottTom Cringle's LogPrint: Book
1900-1945'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant form", but Virginia [Woolf], reading it in the midst of her [mental] il...Virginia Woolf Clive BellArtPrint: Book
1850-1899'Clouds blowing over which increased as the day went on and decided me not to go to the Alpe. A good deal bored. Fortunately I found "Many Cargoes" and read it.' Gertrude Bell William Wymark JacobsMany CargoesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Cloudy but very pleasant. Sighted Gozzo [Gozo] about 10. Read Thucydides and packed. Very amusing watching Gozo with its high perched little towns and terraced fields ru...Gertrude Bell ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: "Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was h...Anne Tibble Thomas Stearns EliotThe Waste LandPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: "Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was h...Anne Tibble John Clare[poetry]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Cob was once the general name the general English Word I mean for a Spider, Cobweb is still left from this Root, & I believe when Ben Jonson wrote Every Man in his Humou...Hester Lynch Thrale Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Cobbett has rubbed down Sir Francis pretty roughly, it appears that when self interest is contrasted with Patriotism the latter in general gives way...'Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Cobbett is quite entertaining in his Rural Rides, he indeed excels in rural descriptions; he sees as well as all may who do not shut their eyes, the poverty and degradat...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Cobbett on the Corn laws is almost above himself it is the best exposition I ever saw of the frantic cry of the Agriculturalists that they bear exclusive burdens, just a...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'coeurde lion at the bier of his father / new monthly magazine' [includes prose note] [transcription of poem]Mary Groom Felicia Dorothea HemansCoeur De Lion At The Bier Of His FatherPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Coldish this morning, with the tiny oil-stove and no boiler — fire till after dark. I have been reading The Romance of War! and am now finishing this [i.e., the d...Ernest William Hornung James GrantThe Romance of War: Or, the Highlanders in SpainPrint: Book
1700-1799'Coleridge's interest in [Amos] Cottle dated back at least to May 1797, when he read his Latin poem, Italia, vastata ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amos CottleItalia, vastataUnknown
1850-1899'Collingwood's poem, read last night, not without its meaning.'John Ruskin Cuthbert Collingwood[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...'The Hon. Stephen Digby William FalconerThe ShipwreckPrint: Book
1850-1899'Colonel Enderby's Wife'Sarah Good Lucas MaletColonel Enderby's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the character is in the main true was shown to me strang...anon. Elizabeth Missing SewellKatherine AshtonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Colonel R. told me that the European government had discoverd an ingenious mode of diminishing the number of burnings of widows...This is the reverse of our system of in...Walter Scott T.R. MalthusPrinciple of Population
1850-1899'Colvin has brought home Woodstock from Nice and we have started reading it aloud, which is a huge institution.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottWoodstockPrint: Book
1850-1899'Colvin?s article on B.C. was so much better than I had expected; he had the courage (which I lacked) to find fault; if I had dared to do so, I might have praised much mo...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinReview of Basil Champneys' book A Quiet Corner of ...Unknown


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