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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
 
'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise ...H.V. MortonIn the Steps of the MasterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale of a hundred cantos...'Thomas Babington Macaulay BoccacioDecameronPrint: Book
1850-1899'Heard Dotty read to-night & was quite pleased at finding she was very much improved & able to read easy words without any trouble'Dotty Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'heard Harry & Sissy read'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'heard Harry & Sissy read'Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Heard Harry read & was much pleased with the understanding he shows though he is at times very careless with regard to little words'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Heard Harry read, but was very bilious & unwell'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Heartfelt thanks for your letter and the pamphlet about Einstein which for me is a small masterpiece of its kind.'Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerJeszcze o Einstein: teoria wzglenosci z lotu ptaka...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Heaven knows there is enough infantile cruelty in his [Basil Nicholson's] book'.Antonia White Basil NicholsonBusiness is BusinessPrint: Book
1900-1945'Hedley took [me to] Reading Room and changed book and read Times and Illustrated News.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook TimesPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Hedley took [me to] Reading Room and changed book and read Times and Illustrated News.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Illustrated London NewsPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1850-1899'Hegel must either be frightfully clever, or a most egregious ass: I incline to the latter position.'Robert Louis Stevenson Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Helen Ball's letter from South Africa to James is like a breath of fresh spring air in this lousy gaol' [describes letter at length and copies extracts; Tom's son Brian ...Thomas Kitching Helen Ball[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four e...John Ruskin Horace-Bénédicte de SaussureVoyage dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four e...John Ruskin Andrea AlciatiEmblemsPrint: Book
1600-1699'Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your "Easy Chair" article in this month?s Harper?s.'Arnold Bennett William Dean Howells'Easy Chair' columnPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Henry has finished Mansfield Park, & his approbation has not lessened. He found the last half of the last volume [italics] extremely interesting [end italics].'Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield Park (last half of last volume)Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'Henry has this moment said that he likes my M[ansfield] P[ark] better & better; - he is in the 3d vol. - I beleive [sic] now he has changed his mind as to foreseeing the...Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield Park (3rd volume)Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'Henry is going on with Mansfield Park; he admires H. Crawford - I mean properly - as a clever, pleasant Man.'Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkManuscript: Sheet, proof sheets


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