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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'As I am writing to you, it wd, I feel, be disingenuous in me if I did not tell you how fully I share the surprise and regret which some at least whose opinion you would,...J.C. Collins Article on Stephen Phillips in the Quarterly Revie...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Dear Mr. Prothero, Did you see the Morning Post of last Wednesday or Thursday? The headlines ran: "British Spy in the Kiel Canal" and then they proceed to give my name a...J.M. de Beaufort Article in the Morning Post entitled 'British Spy ...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I think Algernon's article is quite first rate, about the best thing he ever wrote. It is at once individual and sane - don't you think so?'John Bailey Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: — "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Car...Donald Brown Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Carlyle w...T. Market Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Carlyle w...W. A. Pool Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My dear Prothero, I hope you will not mind my saying as an old friend and contributor to the Quarterly how much I regret seeing in the July issue the article "India unde...Valentine Chirol Article entitled "India under Lord Hardinge" in th...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [Genesis, IV, vv.6-7] are of much more importance to m...John Ruskin The BiblePrint: Book
Letter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the story is the last in the Arabian nights."John Ruskin Arabian NightsPrint: Book
1700-1799" Finished The Tatler"Lady Eleanor Butler The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799" began the Spectator"Lady Eleanor Butler The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799" From two till three I read Tab. de la Suisse."Lady Eleanor Butler Tab. de la SuisseUnknown
1850-1899Robert Sherard on Oscar Wilde's work as a lecturer, in Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship (1902; 1908) 87-9: 'It was a real penance to him, and I could under...Robert Sherard advertisements for Oscar Wilde's lecturesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of t...Oscar Wilde Reise-BilderPrint: Book
1850-1899'... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of t...Oscar Wilde Pocket German dictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799" Then my beloved read La Morte d'Abel"Sarah Ponsonby La Morte D'AbelPrint: Book
1800-1849"went to church, came back, got parlour lunch, had my own dinner, sit by the fire and red (sic) the Penny magazine and opened the door when any visitors came."William Tayler Penny MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945' ... from a chance meeting in a railway carriage with Kipling, [Newman] Flower discovered that he had read ... [The Story-Teller] almost from the first.'Rudyard Kipling The Story-TellerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American...Lloyd George cheap popular fictionPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'...[Hall Caine] told [Samuel] Norris that he had read the Bible through seven times, and Norris conceded that he could quote it in remarkable fashion.'Hall Caine The BiblePrint: Book


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