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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
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwo...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Bronco BillPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 23 October 1850: ' .. my late occupation left a result for some days and indeed still, very painful. The reading over of papers, the ren...Charlotte Bronte Bronte family papersManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Bari...Mary Pollard Sabine Baring-GouldBroom Squire, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'A neighbour lent me [Miss Bremer's] novel, "Brothers and Sisters," the first volume of which we thought admirable: but the latter part about Socialism, Mesmerism, and al...Harriet Martineau and neighbourFrederika BremerBrothers and SistersPrint: Book
1900-1945'He travelled alone, by train, . . . reading "The Brothers Karamazov" for the fourth time'.Arnold Bennett Fyodor DostoyevskyBrothers Karamazov, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading the Father Zossima chapter ['The Brothers Karamazov'] I felt the confessor-saint fulfilled exactly the same function as the psycho-analyst. The psycho-analyst cu...Antonia White Fyodor DostoevskyBrothers Karamazov, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am just fresh from the second reading of your vol ["Brought Forward"]'. Hence follow twelve lines of admiring comment.Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamBrought ForwardPrint: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned to Mr Blackwood that I had two tales I wished to publish, and at his request I gave him a reading of the manuscript. One of them was "The Brownie", which, I ...William Blackwood James HoggBrownie of BodsbeckManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'April 1st. 1918. We came out of the line at night. Back to Arras. H.Q. in cellars in the Hotel de Ville, or Town Hall. Poor Arras! It is in a worse condition than ever...Robert Lindsay Mackay Henry JonesBrowning as a Philosophical and Religious TeacherPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to have our grand-motherly sergeant as chief of the guar...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Henry JonesBrowning as a Philosophical and Religious TeacherPrint: Book
1600-1699'A poor day-labourer in the town ... had an old torn book which he lent my father, which was called "Bunny's Resolution"... And in the reading of this book (when I was ab...Richard Baxter Dr SibbesBruised ReedPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sept. 1794.' Francis Wrangham Francis WranghamBrutoniadManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Looked into Cicero's "Buruts"...'Thomas Green CiceroBrutusPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francis Bond HeadBubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau, by an old manPrint: Book
1900-1945'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Montparnasse", by C.L. Philippe (if you haven?t already ...Arnold Bennett C.L. PhilippeBubu de MontparnassePrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Charles Louis PhilippeBubu de MontparnassePrint: Book
1900-1945Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s...Arnold Bennett Charles Louis PhilippeBubu de MontparnassePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat on deck and read Buddhist Birth Stories and slept.' Gertrude Bell anonBuddhist birth stories: or Jātaka tales. The...Print: Book
1900-1945'Jack read in the evening — I managed to get a look at the budget.'Anne Jenkins BudgetPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I looked over the Budget before sending it away to India for Milly Jones.'Anne Jenkins BudgetPrint: Newspaper


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