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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'One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? from Hans Anderson to Boris Godonof.' Benjamin Britten Alexander Sergeevich PushkinBoris GodonofPrint: Book
1800-1849'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - ...Mary Leadbeter George CrabbeBorough, thePrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp William Harrison AinsworthBoscobel Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sa'adi's "Gulistan" to p.38 in Harrington's edition, and a great deal mor...Mountstuart Elphinstone Sa'adiBostanPrint: 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 [but included] ... In poetry, ... Darwin's ...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Erasmus] DarwinBotanic GardenPrint: Book
1700-1799'By some one of these publications, but most probably from the last-mentioned [i.e. Withering], Mr.Aikin was inspired with a taste for this delightful study...'John Aikin Dr. WitheringBotanical description of British PlantsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[according to Thomas Campbell] he begged of me that when I returned to Ireland, I would endeavour to procure for him a poem of Dr Madden's called "Boulter's Monument". T...Samuel Johnson Samuel MaddenBoulter's MonumentManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room shou...Henry James bound weekly newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at ...Antonia White Gustave FlaubertBouvard et PecuchetPrint: Book
1850-1899'Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.'Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave FlaubertBouvard et PecuchetPrint: Book
1850-1899'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and the "Family Herald". Once when Laura, coming home from...Flora Thompson [n/a]Bow BellsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am pretty sure that J[oseph] C[onrad] read it [the bound Christmas annual of "Boy's Own Paper"] after I had gone to bed because I found little spills of cigarette ash ...Joseph Conrad Boy's Own AnnualPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of "Robinson Crusoe", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels,...Christopher Thomson Robert BoyleBoyle's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey [n/a]Boys of EnglandPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,...John Paton n/aBoys' FriendPrint: Serial / periodical
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1900-1945		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...'Margaret Cole and brothers boys' school storiesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, Unknown
1900-1945'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is lost and the book produces the effect of being a mer...Joseph Conrad George Bradshaw (ed)Bradshaw's Monthly General Railway and Steam Navig...Print: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 17 October 1826: 'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as the stile [quotes from Jonathan Swift, "On the Dea...Walter Scott John SmithBrambletye HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 29th January, I do not like ?Brand?. A religion that takes no account of actuality is no use to humanity. And, after all I think that religion was made for man...Gerald Moore Henrik IbsenBrandPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong Aldous HuxleyBrave New WorldPrint: Book


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