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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
 
1900-1945'Fortunately, the casualties were not very heavy and we varied the time by hunting rats and watching the mice playing about in the dug-outs. My own favourite practice was...Vero Walter Garratt Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.)Golden Treasury, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Fortune has written another book, the Equipage of the Devil, which is fully worse than words can describe.'Robert Louis Stevenson Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille (Boisgobey)L'Equipage du Diable (Equipage of the Devil)Print: Book
1850-1899'Foster's essays.'John Ruskin John Foster[essays]Print: Book
1700-1799'Found in "The History of England" that England was first divided into counties, parishes, etc. in King Alfred's reign, about the year 890...'Thomas Turner anonThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Found much edification in reading Doctor Owen on Indwelling sin in the heart of a believer. I hope to read it often, that I may transcribe it on my memory and note the m...Arabella Davies John OwenThe Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevalency of the R...Print: Book
1800-1849'Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several other books, Rhodes Peak Scenery, in 4, I think, thin 4 ...Anne Lister Peak Scenery, or Excursions in DerbyshirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Found printed paper from Basil Montagu and sat up writing notes to detect its sophistry.'William Windham Basil Montagu['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and obser...Unknown
1850-1899'Found the youngsters had not gone to bed so aroused them by reading some little stories'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1900-1945'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord ...Members of XII Book ClubEdward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord DunsanyFame and the PoetPrint: Book
1900-1945'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord ...Members of XII Book ClubJohn GalsworthyWindowsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord ...Members of XII Book ClubStanley HoughtonThe Dear DepartedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord ...Members of XII Book ClubAlan Alexander MilneThe Boy Comes HomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When she read his Memoirs, she found them incomplete, and...Frances Burney Charles BurneyMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of the house lived in by her family [to read], in the ...Frances Mary Buss  
1850-1899'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the r...Frances Stevenson Henryk SienkiewiczQuo VadisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the r...Frances Stevenson Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1850-1899'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the r...Frances Stevenson Mrs MeekEllesmerePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book


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