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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'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Alfred Rawlings Henry NewboltBallad of John Nicholson, APrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Oscar WildeBallad of Reading GaolPrint: Book
1900-1945'This book made a deep and lasting impression upon me because, apart from its profound human interest in the widest sense of the term, the agonising process of revaluatio...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Oscar WildeBallad of Reading Gaol or De ProfundisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Before the meeting, Larkin had no detailed knowledge of Watkins's work - what he had read, including the newly published "Ballad of the Mari Lwyd", seemed to him too ful...Philip Larkin Vernon WatkinsBallad of the Mari Lwyd, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Charles Evans Sidney LanierBallad of Trees and the Master, APrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846: 'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that beautiful things are there -- I suppose "Delora" wil...Robert Browning Richard Hengist HorneBallad RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 17 May 1800: 'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownBalladsUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 1 June 1800: ' ... a sweet mild morning. Read Ballads; went to church.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownBalladsUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 4 June 1800: 'I walked to the lake-side in the morning, took up plants, and sate upon a stone reading Ballads.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownBalladsUnknown
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "To-day what I am grateful for is your new ballad-book, which has just reached me by your command. I have had tim...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonBalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 13 January 1891 (in letter begun 12 January 1891): "Since yesterday I have ... read the ballad book -- with the admiration that I a...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonBalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Is Mr Child married? I am always wanting to write & thank him for his Ballads, which I delight in' [she then deprecates her own letter writing style and says she is put ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis James ChildBalladsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I got your beautiful book of Ballads the other day at Moxon's. It contains (as far as I have seen it) much that is sweet and good and reminds me of you.'Alfred Tennyson Mary HewittBallads and other poemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The strike [at Dowlais Iron Company works] being over, Lady Charlotte left Dowlais for Canford. She stopped in London on the way [...] In the evening there was "Music wi...Lady Charlotte Guest BodeBallads from HerodotusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Somewhat later [than his discovery of Lempriere at 8] another chance discovery which may well have been formative was J.E. Bode's "Ballads from Herodotus", in which the ...Alfred Edward Housman J.E BodeBallads from HerodotusPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Kay AmbroseBallet Lover's NotebookPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons,...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown]Bampton lecturesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.'Sir Walter Raleigh PlatoBanquetPrint: Book
1850-1899The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partridge, read [Ruskin's] Sesame and Lilies [1865] and [M...Millicent Duchess of Sutherland Marie CorelliBarabbasPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Marie] Corelli's rendering of the Resurrection in Barabbas [1893] was read from the pulpit on Easter Sunday at Westminster Abbey by the Dean.'Marie CorelliBarabbasPrint: Book


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