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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'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham ...Sydney Smith unknown[article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to B...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham ...Sydney Smith unknown[article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoir...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861: 'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangelica] which has been lent me, giving an account of it...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownPamphlet on the Chiesa EvangelicaPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'Noona seems to have a very interesting story in his bound up Cassell's Paper and I think we have one of them in our own.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownCassell's Illustrated Family PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'We had a few business connections with Prague in pre-war days, and our customers' knowledge of English always impressed rue, and within the last year I have read three b... unknownTo sing with the AngelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I only know from what I read, but the fact that the Nazis have to keep a huge Gestapo force inside Czech Territory is sufficient proof of the stubborn resistance put up ... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I gather from a review that the conclusion of the book has not been printed in the Fortnightly?& this the most interesting part of the book. For this reason I should li...Arnold Bennett unknownReview of H.G. Wells' The First Men on the MoonPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite engrossed by heroes and legislatures' [and later in ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] unknown[Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and...Print: Book
1900-1945'I suffered very much in that shop through all the summer months. At that time we went to live at Malmaison and it was heartrending to think of George and Alfred [reader...Arthur Vanson unknown[penny dreadfuls]Print: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, wife of the British diplomat Hugh Fraser, recalls acquaintances made whilst en poste with him in China (1874-78): 'Outside of his work Sir Robert Ha...Sir Robert Hart unknown[Light French novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means exhausted them yet. ?Mahatma Gandhi? I am reading at...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownMahatma GandhiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterpiece.'Winifred Agnes Moore unknownOakroydPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex. I have not yet had time to comp...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLe Blois VertPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean. ...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLife of TurgotPrint: Book
1900-1945'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him personally during the last phase ? the ?New English We...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLife of OragePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. The Proceedings of the Secret Committee..'Mountstuart Elphinstone unknownThe Proceedings of the Secret CommitteePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknown[texts on French history]Print: Book
1600-1699'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and Plays, teaching me as I read, where to place my accen...Hannah Woolley unknownunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and Plays, teaching me as I read, where to place my accen...Hannah Woolley unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. I read a good deal of the "Port Royal Gr...Mountstuart Elphinstone unknownPort Royal Greek GrammarPrint: Book


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