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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'Hoped to have 1" aiming rifle practice, but after getting up ammunition & lots of fuss we cleared off to lunch. Read during the afternoon & tea at 3.30.'Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1700-1799'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his retur...Samuel Johnson Horace[ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequensPrint: Book
1700-1799'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his retur...Mr Seward Horace[ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequensPrint: Book
1700-1799'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his retur...James Boswell Horace Print: Book
1800-1849'Horne Tooke is a dirty dog - he gives the derivation of such words! - There sits Mr Wilbraham two hours every morning in the library, sniggering and shaking his fat side...Sarah Harriet Burney John Horne TookeEpea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of PurleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consult the "Daily Telegraph Supplement"; host offers Obse... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consult the "Daily Telegraph Supplement"; host offers Obse... [n/a]Daily Telegraph SupplementPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Houlston [Harriet Martineau's publisher] wrote to ask for another story of somewhat more substance and bulk [than the first two he had taken from her]. My "Globe" newsp...Harriet Martineau The GlobePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning. "I suppose Eden thought they'd go on their knees to get him not to resign. If ther... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning.' newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havellock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventuall...Margaret Powell Kama SutraPrint: Book
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually...Margaret Powell Marie Stopes[book on sex]Print: Book
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually...Margaret Powell Havelock Ellis[book on sex]Print: Book
1800-1849'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected ...George Crabbe Horace SmithGaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comi...Print: Book
'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected ...George Crabbe Reynolds[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected ...George Crabbe [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world, not entirely worldly, a quintessence of social wis...Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer LyttonEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'How detestably Sir Edward Bulwer speaks of Shelley in his life of Schiller. - he thinks to gain popularity by truckling to the times - and mistakes the spirit of the tim...Mary Shelley Edward Bulwer-Lytton[biograpohical sketch in] Poems and Ballads of Sch...Print: Book
1700-1799'How difficult it is to come at petty Literature! the long Note at the end of Pope's Odyssey is it seems written purposely to mislead one; Pope translated but two of the ...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'How do you like Thalaba? There are always so many nothings to be done in London daily, that I have not read ten lines for the last ten weeks, till I came to Holland Hous...Matthew Lewis Marrie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du DeffandLettersPrint: Book


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