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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
 
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 27 January 1755: 'I read Barbarossa in a great hurry, but remember in general that I was as well pleased with it as I could be wi...Elizabeth Carter BarbarossaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".'John Frederick William Dunn John OxenhamBarbe of Grand BayonPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen John OxenhamBarbe of Grand BayouPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read ... "Barlash [sic] of the Guard". Dressed & sat by the fire. Dominoes.'John Frederick William Dunn Henry Seton MerrimanBarlasch of the GuardPrint: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourse...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1900-1945'There is nothing fresh for me to write about. Am still in the same place and doing little work. A good deal of my time is spent reading, and at present my book is:...Thomas Wainwright Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 15th February, Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnificent. I would like to give a paper on this aspect of ...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayBarry LindonPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe...Herbert Hodge William Makepeace ThackerayBarry LyndonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Bartholomew Fair of Ben Johnson [sic]'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonBartholomew FayrePrint: Book
1700-1799'Miss Hannah More has admirably described a [italics] Blue-stocking Club [end italics], in her "Bas Bleu", a poem in which many of the persons who were most conspicuous t...James Boswell Hannah MoreBas Bleu; or ConversationPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.'Dorothy Wordsworth Philip MassingerBashful Lover, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] August [1914:] By waters of Germany.
Queenie's whim.
Timothy's Guest.
Basil Lyndhurst.
Highway of Fate.
Lamp Lighter
Boo...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Rosa Nouchette CareyBasil LyndhurstPrint: Book
1900-1945'[another of Owen's poetic influences was] Brooke's friend W.W. Gibson, whose "Battle" (1915) Owen read in December [1915]'Wilfred Owen W.W. GibsonBattlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you very much for "Battle" [W. W. Gibson], but curse this nib. To me it is not as good as Housman; some things appeal to me for setting, but not strongly[.] Th...Ivor Bertie Gurney Wilfrid Wilson GibsonBattlePrint: Book
1850-1899'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should have little to complain of. It is wonderfully fine...Margaret Oliphant George ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Book
1850-1899'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was st...[?George] Simpson George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingManuscript: Sheet, Proofs of aricle
1850-1899'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was st...Old Mrs Simpson George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingManuscript: Sheet, Proofs of article
1850-1899'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of the Magazine. Nothing so good has appeared for year...G.C. Swayne George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical


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