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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'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".'William LempriereTour to MoroccoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in...Elizabeth Bowen [n/a]EncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in...Elizabeth Bowen [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'ELLEN: looks up from the "Sketch", which she has been reading: "How do you pronounce M-Y-R-R-H"?'Ellen [unknown]SketchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed that the Recreative Evening Homes were an alternative ... storiesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Ellinor, or the World as it is, by M.A.Hanway. 4 vols. An entertaining production written in a light, easy style [editor does not reproduce all of Weeton's comments] [Th...Ellen Weeton Mary Ann HanwayEllinor, or the World as it is (A Novel in Four Vo...Print: Book
1900-1945'Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only by an ill-bred-and-natured journalist Priestley in t...Edward Morgan Forster J. B. Priestleyarticle on E. M. ForsterPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'eminently vindictive, frequently unchristian in spirit, with scarcely any recognition of an over-ruling Providence'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth William NapierHistory of the War in the PeninsulaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Employed myself during the day in reading & studying the French Grammar, as we are to have a lesson from Lefarge this evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][French Grammar]Print: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When he was jailed during the first World War for refusing...Emrys Daniel Hughes John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes Herbert George WellsThe World Set FreePrint: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes [biography of William Penn]Print: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes Walt Whitman Print: Book
1800-1849'Enabled publicly after "Reading" to cast my care upon our Henry Helper'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Ends and Means contains much that is good and new. Also his essays are quite attractive, his novels are utter tripe.'Aldous HuxleyEnds and MeansPrint: Book
1900-1945'English at the moment is super - we are doing the history of drama, and Hazlitt, both most interesting.'Hilary Spalding William HazlittunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Enjoyed "The second mile" by Fosdick. Actually in bed by 10.30 pm!'Albert Ruskin Cook Harry Emerson FosdickThe Second MilePrint: Book


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