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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'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson William Shakespeare[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson [Samuel?] Johnson[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson Laurence Sterne[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson Matthew LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay n/aBiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay Ovid[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay Juvenal[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay Catullus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'For weeks after reading that book [i.e. Robinson Crusoe], I lived as if in a dream; indeed I scarcely dreamt of anything else at night. I went to sleep with the cave, it...Letitia Elizabeth Landon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'For weeks I've had a bad wrist or I would have thanked you before for the "[A] M[an] [in] the Z[oo]". D[avid] may be congratulated in pulling off this piece with great t...Joseph Conrad David GarnettA Man in the ZooPrint: Book
1800-1849'for which I coin a word which will speak to myself, "epochable"'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas Arnold Print: Book
1900-1945'For years I continued to detest the founder of modern nursing and all that she stood for - a state of mind which persisted until, quite recently, I read her essay "Cassa...Vera Brittain Florence NightingaleCassandraPrint: Book
1900-1945'Forbes has three postcards; one marked "Try Singapore, then Batavia". This shows there must be internees in Batavia and gives me some hope that Nora may be there, althou...Thomas Kitching [unknown]postcardManuscript: postcard
1900-1945'Forged ahead with Savile's Clinical Medicine.'Albert Ruskin Cook Thomas Dixon SavillA System of Clinical MedicinePrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Forgive me for not thanking you sooner for the book ["Incidences"]. It's my gouty wrist I can barely hold a pen. But I don't need to tell you that I find your pages alwa...Joseph Conrad André GideIncidencesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Forgive me for the delay in thanking you for the volume you were so kind to as to send me. How well done, well conceived, well said! Your "Ariane" is easily the most cha...Joseph Conrad André RuytersLe Mauvais RichePrint: Book
1900-1945'Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II ("Byzantium A.D. 313-565") of F. A. Wright's A History of Later Greek Literature from the Death of Al...Edward Morgan Forster F. A. WrightA History of Later Greek LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women" and "Women in Political Evolution", which I still t...Hannah Mitchell Joseph MacabeThe Religion of WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women" and "Women in Political Evolution", which I still t...Hannah Mitchell Joseph MacabeWomen in Political EvolutionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".'Frank Smythe James BoswellA Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book


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