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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
1900-1945		Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I understand anything they say; also I have read the whol...Virginia Woolf classical Greek literaturePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, aged 93): 'She possessed an extraordinary force of mi...The Honourable Caroline Howe unknownClassical Greek textsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both...Leonard Woolf Classical Greek textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the evening of the days when it was necessary for him to stay in the City, to "lock up" [the family banking-house], George occupied himself principally with study. He...George Grote classical textsPrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a...anon Claude du ValPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey [unknown]Claude DuvalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to l...Jane Baillie Welsh Johann Wolfgang von GoetheClavigo, a TragedyPrint: Book
1600-1699'This weeke after a long restraint, God was pleased to sett mee at liberty againe; I went abroad now commonly againe to any of my friends & neighbours houses; in my r...Ralph Josselin Joseph MedeClavis ApocalypticaPrint: Book
1900-1945MS note on final flyleaf: "This book gets very poor towards the end. The omissions in the Shield of Achilles, - both in the key and the index, - are nothing less than dis...George Otto Trevelyan John WalkerClavis HomericaPrint: Book
1900-1945'If possible send me an amusing book small enough to be put in a large pocket. That is to say smaller than a Prayer-book and much smaller than a Hymn Book and much ...Maurice Baring Arnold BennettClayhangerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was su...Benjamin Brierley [John] [Cleave]Cleave's Weekly Police GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it throws on L?on Daudet than on its subject ? a person (C...Winifred Agnes Moore Leon DaudetClemenceauPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley's "Cleone, a Tragedy", to him, not aware of his ext...Bennet Langton Robert DodsleyCleone, a TragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley's "Cleone, a Tragedy", to him, not aware of his ext...Samuel Johnson Robert DodsleyCleone, a TragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to John Hoole] I have returned your play, which you will find underscored with red, where there was a word which I did not like. The red will be was...Samuel Johnson John HooleCleoniceManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I hope that you will not measure my gratitude to you for so kindly sending the Cleopatra-poem, by my promptitude in writing to thank you for it. Please accept now my bes...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Wetmore StoryCleopatraManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
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7....		Celia Burrow Thomas Edward BrownCliftonUnknown
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Charles Evans Henry NewboltClifton ChapelPrint: Book
1900-1945Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Rivière, I pass a fortnight before opening it. The fo...Arnold Bennett Marcel JouhandeauClodomir l'assassinPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Charles ReadeCloister and the Hearth, ThePrint: Book


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