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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'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading Smollett's History [...] She summed up her impressi...Anne Isabella Milbanke Tobias SmollettHistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Charles Darwin[all works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Fyodor Dostoevsky Print: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Honore de BalzacThe Human ComedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Immanuel KantCritique of Pure ReasonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl The Mistaken Subtlety of the Four-Sided FigurePrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Nikolai GogolThe OvercoatPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Nikolai GogolThe NosePrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Nikolai GogolThe Madman's DiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short stories. Reads big news items, but prefers to get them fro... Daily ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short stories. Reads big news items, but prefers to get them fro... News of the WorldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short stories. Reads big news items, but prefers to get them fro... Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1700-1799'Examined, with a view to those principles, Addison's Eleven Papers in the "Spectator"; beginning at No. 409, and with the omission of the 410th, ending with the 421st. ...Thomas Green Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book
1800-1849'excellent, some antidote is salutary amidst such frivolities'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth LeightonSermon on Divine Grace and ObediencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Excellent, the last number of "Maga".especially [...] Neil Munro's instalment' Joseph Conrad Neil MunroChildren of the Tempest Part 2Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider. Rousseau's "Contr...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauDu Contrat SocialPrint: Book
1800-1849'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider... With respect to ...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1900-1945'Except sometimes when my wife sits on the arm of my chair when I am reading, and proceeds to perform on my own nails, mine would always be fairly described as dirty (Wif... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life - I have no pretensions to being a critic - yet I know infin...Mary Shelley Thomas MooreLife of Lord ByronPrint: Book


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