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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'Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never mean it to be what I will make it--but as nuns & thos...Lady Caroline Lamb Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1850-1899'Father has made Con read out to him again yesterday Oscar Wilde's essay ('The Decay of Lying') and ... he thought still more highly of it than before...'Constance Lytton Oscar WildeThe Decay of LyingPrint: Book
1850-1899'Father has made Con read out to him again yesterday Oscar Wilde's essay ('The Decay of Lying') and ... he thought still more highly of it than before...'Robert Lytton Oscar WildeThe Decay of LyingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Father is rehearsing Drake's Drum for Wednesday'. Leslie Stephen Henry John NewboltDrake's DrumPrint: Book
1900-1945'Father saw me off at Naples — I felt most dreadfully sad at saying goodbye to my dear family, but I consoled myself by reading "Ulysses" which is a most beautiful ...Gertrude Bell Alfred, Lord TennysonUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser Anthony Trollope[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser [unknown][books on politics]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father's brief lines were full of a sombre perplexity only too familiar. Indirectly, however, they carried a special shock, for to my amazement I had difficulty decipher...Ralph Glasser Mr Glasser[letters to his son, Ralph]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'February 12. J. [Middleton Murry] read the Tchehov [sic] aloud. I had read one of the stories myself and it seemed to me nothing. But read aloud it was a masterpiece. ...J. Middleton Murry Anton ChekhovunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'February 26. Looking over Mr Bifield's book called The Spirituall Touchstone, I noted severall signes of a good man, according to which thus I find my selfe for present'...Isaac Archer Nicholas ByfieldThe Spiritual Touchstone: or, the Signes of a Godl...Print: Book
1900-1945'February 5. Wrote at my story, read Shakespeare, Read Goethe, thought, prayed.'Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Feeling rather miz at the moment as I have been reading three days worth of the "Express" and "Evening Standard". They really fill me with alarm. I simply shall be una...Harold Nicolson ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Felt in a very miserable mood during the evening, took a stroll had a peep into the library of the Mechanics Institution & then went to the Hall of the Criterion Hotel w...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'Fen read me an order of council passed the 17th instant, directing all the Treasurers of any part of the King's revenue to make no payments but such as shall be approved... [unknown][order of council]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Fetched the "Castle of Mowbray" from Lindley's Library; a very silly Love tale. Took the "Castle of Otranto" to the Library. It is one of the most entertaining novels I ...Joseph Hunter Mrs HarleyThe Castle of MowbrayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Field and Hedgerow'Sarah Good Richard JefferiesField and HedgerowPrint: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...Samuel Johnson Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...James Boswell Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book


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