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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'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson M.L. MolesworthCarrotsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. As an introduction to our...		Rosamund Wallis P. G. WodehouseCarry on, JeevesPrint: Book
1900-1945'What to me [...] seems most wonderful in the "Cartagena" book is its inextinguishable vitality, the unchanged strength of feeling, steadfastness of sympathies and force ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamCartagena and the Banks of the SinuPrint: Book
1700-1799'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'.Eugenia Wynne Hernan CortesCartas de relacion [??]Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]|: 7pp (6 ink, 1 pencil) of ms notes of journeys (all in south of England or Wales) in the blank pages following the end of the text, in a standard format eg:...John CaryCary's New itinerary: or an accurate delineation o...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable things a very noble expression of what I believe to ...George Eliot [pseud] Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCasa Guidi WindowsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite...Edwin Muir Felicia Dorothea HemansCasabiancaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The case is altered of B. Jonson'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonCase is Altered, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Case is Altered of B.[en] Jonson aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonCase is Altered, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] specially appeals, as I know so much of the literature, t...Frederic Harrison Mary Augusta WardCase of Richard Meynell, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Wiliam Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 22 June 1817: 'By the bye, it was not till this morning that I read the case of Stuart versus Lovell. What a miscreant - If I had bee...William Wordsworth case of Stuart versus LovellUnknown
1800-1849'I am reading Caspar Hauser - its being an invention takes from the interest - if it were true it wd be a deeply exciting work - It reminds me much of Calderon's La Vida ...Mary Shelley Anselm von FeurbachCaspar HauserPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to her, and she read to me the "Epistle of Cassandra", which is very good endeed, and the better to her because recommended by Sheres. So to supper, and I to be...Elizabeth Pepys La Calpren?deCassandraPrint: 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
1850-1899'Cassell's Magazine provided stronger meat...and I think every word of it found some reader in the family.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Cassell's Family MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock anonCassell's History of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Noona seems to have a very interesting story in his bound up Cassell's Paper and I think we have one of them in our own.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownCassell's Illustrated Family PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a]Cassell's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Lancashire workman wrote to Cassell's that the first 23 volumes of the National Library "have done a great deal of good even in my own neighbourhood, for several of my ow...several Lancashire workman [n/a]Cassell's National Library (first 23 vols)Print: Book
1850-1899'Next to the Bible in time, and soon superseding it in practice were four volumes of Cassell's Illustrated History of England, which my father got bound up from a set of ...Thomas A. Jackson [n/a]Cassells Illustrated History of EnglandPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes


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