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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
 
1700-1799'However, at all Hazards, I'll venture to stand the Test of publishing the Following, because Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] approved it.' [LP then reproduces several ...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonRoman Father, The; A TragedyManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'Virginia Woolf Lewis MelvilleThe Thackeray CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'Virginia Woolf F. G. KittonThe Dickens CountryPrint: Book
1600-1699'how[ever], I fell to read a little in Hakewill's "apology", and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world doth not grow old at all, but is...Samuel Pepys Dr George HakewillAn apologie or declaration of the power and provid...Print: Book
1900-1945'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The oth...Joseph Conrad W.(William) H.(Henry) HudsonThe London Sparrow in Kith and Kin: Poems of Anima...Print: Book
1900-1945'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The oth...Joseph Conrad W.(William) H.(Henry) HudsonGreen Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest Print: Book
1900-1945'Hugh Walpole's The Apple Tree, a volume of reminiscences, was published for Christmas 1932. The first words of the book are: "There is a fearful passage in Virginia Wo...Hugh Walpole Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Humourous [sic] & Pathetic. Worth reading.'Sarah Good Helen MathersComin' thro' the Rye: A NovelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R. Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of "Shorter Poems" than...Joseph Conrad Humphry JamesPaddy's Woman and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R. Bridges is a poet. I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of "Shorter Poems" th...Joseph Conrad Robert BridgesShorter PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, they seemed strangely amiable.... I sat beside two wo... Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, they seemed strangely amiable.... I sat beside two wo... Daily ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a...Hymie Fagan Frank Richards[school stories in The Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a...Hymie Fagan Frank Richards[school stories in The Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a...Hymie Fagan Talbot Baines Reed[school stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'I ... found Miss [Sara] Hutchinson reading Coleridge's Christabel to Johnny [Wordsworth] - She was tired, so I read the greater part of it: he was excessively interested...Sara Hutchinson and Dorothy WordsworthSamuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelUnknown
1900-1945'I ... have also re-read Jane Eyre from beginning to end — it is a magnificent novel. Some of those long, long dialogues between her and Rochester are really like duets...Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontėJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'I ... took an active part in the work of the [Old Meeting Church] and became a Sunday School teacher. Happily, the class of small boys I was called on to manage could be...Vero Walter Garratt BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I ... took an active part in the work of the [Old Meeting Church] and became a Sunday School teacher. Happily, the class of small boys I was called on to manage could be...Vero Walter Garratt Charles KingsleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I add a few words above all to talk to you about the book. I've read the novel for the third time, faithfully--from one end to the other. It's very good. It's very good!...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaPour NoemiPrint: Book


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