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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'Friday, January 28th [...] I read Medwin's book upon Lord Byron. -- My God, what lies that book contained! Poor Shelley is made to play quite a secondary part [goes on...Claire Clairmont Thomas MedwinJournal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday. Feb 6th. Look at Work. Read Rob Roy.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday. Cold + wet under foot. Frenchman fainted after bath. Bridge. Still losing. Fr. + read The Fighting Chance by RW Chambers.'William Thomas Robert W. ChambersThe Fighting ChancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday. Lovely day. Walked about[.] No letters. Shown sketches by Russian ... Read Aysha [sic] by Rider Haggard. Ev Bridge. Did not play well. Gym gets on well.'William Thomas Henry Rider HaggardAyesha, the Return of ShePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friendship' 'O yes I will own we were dear to one another/...' [Oh! Yes, I will own we were dear to each other/...' - Byron's original text]Margaret Maingay [?] George Gordon, Lord ByronTo [George, Earl Delawarr]Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'friendship, love & truth / montgomery'Mary Groom James MontgomeryFriendship, love and truthUnknown
1900-1945'Fri[.] Lovely day. As usual. Tired of it all. Read "Three Men on a bummel" by Jerome K Jerome.'William Thomas Jerome K. JeromeThree Men on the BummelPrint: Book
1800-1849'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this work so attentively for the style's sake. Besides t...Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'From 9 till 11 was idly spent in looking thro a Volume of the British Critic.'William Upcott n/aThe British CriticPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'From a classroom library of perhaps two dozen volumes [Richard Hillyer] borrowed one by Tennyson, simply because it had 'Poet Laureate' printed on the title page: the co...Richard Hillyer Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last, discovering suddenly what the mystery was all about. ...Rosemary Sutcliff GrimmFairy TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'from an accidental copy of the Leader I learn that a fourth edition [of Mary Barton] is coming out'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Leader, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'From Axel Munthe's "San Michele": "Imprisoned monkeys, so long as they are in company, live on the whole a supportable life. They are so busy finding out all that is goi...Thomas Kitching Axel MuntheSan MichelePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'From Byron' 'The Chain I Gave Was Fair to View.../'Julia George Gordon, Lord ByronFrom the Turkish [The Chain I Gave]Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'From Charlemagne a poem by Lucien Bonaparte.' [followed by English translation, 'copied']Bowly groupLucien BonaparteCharlemagne... Poeme EpiqueUnknown
1850-1899'From fine I turned to applied art, diverted by a periodical called The Girl's Own Paper. For a long period this monthly, which I now regard as quaint, but which I shall ...Arnold Bennett Girl's OwnPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'From Miss [Lucy] Harrison [...] [Charlotte Mew] had heard time and again a reading of Carlyle's "Everlasting No" from "Sartor Resartus".'Lucy Harrison Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1800-1849'From my early years I was always a lover of books, and I well remeber when we lived in a solitary place that my mother on going to a neighbouring town, always bought me ...Robert White [unknown]'a penny history'Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'From one of his Journals I transcribed what follows : "At church, Oct.—65. " To avoid all singularity; [italics] Bonaventura [end italics] " To come in before ser...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[journal]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'From one point of view I've nothing but admiration for the ending of "Shadows" ["Fraternity"].Its naturalness is appalling. Of course it can be attacked but its quality ...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityManuscript: Sheet


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