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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'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'...Thomas Carter William JowettChristian Researches in the Mediterranean, from MD...Print: Book
1900-1945'V.S. Pritchett's "popular educator" was the literary section of the Christian Science Monitor: "It was imbued with that unembarrassed seriousness about learning things w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett n/aChristian Science MonitorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at a poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity, which I ha...John Ruskin [n/a]Christian YearPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christian Franz PaulliniChristiani Francisci Paullini disquisitio curiosaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infidelity".'George Eliot (pseud) Sara HennellChristianity and InfidelityPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Walther RauschenbuschChristianity and the Social CrisisPrint: Book
1850-1899'I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himself.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas StevensonChristianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testi...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a famous story of the appearance of Mrs. Veal, prefixe...Samuel Johnson Charles DrelincourtChristians Defense against the Fears of DeathPrint: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a famous story of the appearance of Mrs. Veal, prefixe...James Boswell Charles DrelincourtChristians Defense against the Fears of Death Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue fro...Mary Pollard Charles ReadeChristie JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899"I am now going in for another shot at "Christie's Faith". I am feeling devilishly lazy - Oh! I will try a pipe - it may wake me up - 5 PM. 5.45 I have done it! both pip...Leslie Stephen Christie's FaithPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Frederick William RobinsonChristie's FaithPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Htitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed ...Janet Hitchman O.F. WaltonChristie's Old OrganPrint: Book
1850-1899'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories wi...children and mothersMrs O.F. WaltonChristie's Old OrganPrint: Book
1900-1945'Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems more entertaining than the sentimental pieties of "Ch...Winifred Holtby Christie's Old Organ, Jessica's First Prayer, A Pe...Print: Book
1900-1945Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...Patricia Beer Mrs O.F. WaltonChristie's Old Organ; or, Home Sweet HomePrint: Book
1900-1945I noticed strangely few misprints in 'C.A.’s Pa'. though I had my malicious eye open for them. Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsChristina Alberta's FatherPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Stella GibbonsChristmas at Cold Comfort FarmPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith, 9 January 1850:

'You ask me what I think of [Thackeray's] Christmas Book. I think it is like himself, and all he says and writ...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayChristmas BookPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Charles DickensChristmas Carol, APrint: Book


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