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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
 
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shades to dwell!/ One positively might as well/ be buried...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine H. SmithCountry and TownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a work of art - or would you?) - but I dipped in and r...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestCountry NotesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 July 1837: 'Why should we [']'mere balladmongers" have so much to say of ourselves, when the "Country stories" lie cut...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordCountry StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 7.iv.41 S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
...		Knox Taylor J. M. BarrieCourage [University of St Andrews Rectoral address...Print: Book
1800-1849'Writing to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank on 19 April 1809, S[ara] H[utchinson] remarked that she had seen a churn "advertized in the Courier yesterday". She refers to ...Sara Hutchinson anonCourierPrint: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter n/aCourierPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop n/aCourierPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Tuesday 24 August The ?Courier? poster today says ?World mourns Rudolph Valentino? ! It makes me glad he is dead, since he has become a tool whereby the press can red...Gerald Moore CourierPrint: Poster
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Robert Peel, 24 December 1821: 'I have seen in the Courier the accounts from the Irish papers of O'Connell's affair.'John Wilson Croker CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account of a little poem upon the comet, which I have read i...William Wordsworth Courier, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Courier, The Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Later I sent my mother a clipping from the Louisville "Courier-Journal", whose woman reporter had been present.'Vera Brittain Courier-JournalPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted b...George Gissing Auguste ComteCours de Philosophie PositivePrint: Book
1800-1849'in came the Rector with, "I have just been at the Hall, Ly Maria has just got the "Court Journal", which says "Trevelyan" was written by Ly S. of Petersham".' [n/a]Court JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘...the Court Journal (which by the way, seems to be very good – for nothing – )...The Court Journal must pay uncommon well, before I will rank myself among its familia...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Court JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Began Court Life by HRH The Infanta Eulalia of Spain.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Infanta Eulalia of Spain Court Life from WithinPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1821: 'Ramsgate is still empty and dull; our good weather fled with the pomp of the Coronation.... Blessings on the Queen! I...John Wilson Croker court newsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different...Members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Court of Appeal, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I only divide my time between riding Peggy and reading Sevigne by the fire...'Elizabeth Wedgwood Marie de Rabutin-Chantal SevigneCourt Secrets: or the Lady's Chronicle Historical ...Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs...Celia Burrow Elizabeth GaskellCousin PhillisPrint: Book


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