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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'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Thank God for Shakespeare at any rate. Baron Lefroy can...John Mitchel William ShakespeareMerry Wives of WindsorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Drove out to Ledbury with Commeline, Ann, C, and M.N Junior [...]Having read Kitt's [NB Kett's] Flowers of Wit I pronounce them to be mere daisies. Everywhere there are ...Benjamin Newton Henry KettThe flowers of wit, or a choice collection of bonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dubliners, James Joyce. First time I read it I was not much impressed, but on reading them again I found much that I had missed. They are immensely real and intimate ske...James JoyceDublinersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dud all day. No flying ... Did nothing, but read and smoke. Bed early.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Dud and no patrols all day. Read and smoked. Dinner in Pop. [Poperinge] with Jack.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Dud for patrols all day. Wind and low clouds. Read and smoked. 15 guests for dinner! Cinema after. I read and stayed in Peacock's room. Bed early.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.'John Ruskin AristophanesClouds, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Dulness is not confined to them [Bishops], it descends to their Sons, witness our celebrated Comedy, [italics] The Suspicious Husband [end italics], which, but for its n...Laetitia Pilkington Benjamin HoadlySuspicious Husband, ThePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley, who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. He had not read it before, and I had not...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Frances BurneyMemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945'During her visit [to America] in 1905-6 May Sinclair was reduced to tears when she saw one article, based on a conversation over tea, which she felt included too intimat...May Sinclair unknownarticlePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'During his holidays he found on his mother's dressing-table an old torn copy of Gerard's "Herbal", having the names and figures of some of the plants with which he had f...Joseph Banks John GerardThe Herball or General Historie of PlantsPrint: Book
1700-1799'During his sleepless nights he amused himself by translating into Latin verse, from the Greek, many of the epigrams in the "Anthologia"'.Samuel Johnson Anthologia GraecaPrint: Book
1800-1849'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Paradise Lost - including Book I and Book VI, lines 767-...William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849'During Mr Montgomery's stay he read books from my library, and on his returning Byron's Doge of Venice.'James Montgomery George Gordon, Lord ByronDoge of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'During my holiday read again Wuthering Heights . . but one can every quite recapture the first horror of contacting Heathcliff — and the voice at the window.'Vere Hodgson Emily BrontėWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1700-1799'During my late visit to the Hammonds, they had acquainted me with the names of the principal characters amongst our former neighbours in East Kent, pointed at in Mr E Br...John Marsh Sir Samuel Egerton BrydgesArthur Fitz-AlbaniPrint: Book
1900-1945'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner and followed the militant campaigns with the exciteme...Vera Brittain Olive SchreinerunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'During my sojourn on the Rio Negro letters and papers reached me only at rare intervals. On one occasion I passed nearly two months without seeing a newspaper. I r...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amintas [end italics]: as they were really very elegant; ...Laetitia van Lewen Matthew Pilkington[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amintas [end italics]: as they were really very elegant; ...Elizabeth van Lewen Matthew Pilkington[letters to her daughter]Manuscript: Letter


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