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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'My reader is a great success. It is ''Cranford'', and ''D-n Dr Johnson'' comes in. She stopped dead and said ''a slang expression''. I can't perceive she is ever amused....Emma Darwin Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1900-1945'I could begin to read one of the books that had been given me ... and lose myself in another world. [Followed by a list of books read]'Eileen Lawrence Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Many thanks and belated for the parcel you sent about a week ago and your letter. The apples are always a good thing to have and these remained fresh. I have not ans...Charles Hamilton Sorley Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'Cranford'Sarah Good Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading, in the evening, "Poor Peter".'George Eliot and G.H. LewesElizabeth GaskellCranford - 'Poor Peter' sectionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Frank Theodore WoodsCreed of a ChurchmanPrint: Book
1800-1849?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the business. My duties were to clean books and knives and br...William Edwin Adams Eliot WarburtonCrescent and the CrossPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans ...Katherine Evans Rabindranath TagoreCrescent Moon, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan. 27th. and 28th. [1889] We carried him down for the first time to the drawing-room [...] Read Bret Harte'...Alfred Tennyson Bret HarteCressyPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h...Marjory Todd Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'19th September 1928 (Wednesday) I have got nearly all my books home from the office now. It is a lengthy job, bringing them in two?s and threes, but I have had enoug...Gerald Moore Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s "Crime and Punishment"? English translation damnable; but it is...Arnold Bennett Fyodor DostoyevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own wri...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'His injury had not been permanent, and he now sat day after day beside Winifred's bed, talking to her about Russian literature and reading aloud from "Crime and Punishme...George de Coundouroff Fyodor DostoyevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Wilfred MasseyCrime at the ClubPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith Readings - Careers for Women - F. Ridges, - Crime de ...V. Ridges Anatole FranceCrime of Sylvestre Bonnard, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell crime/horror fictionPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Cornelia Sorabji Criminal DigestPrint: Book
1850-1899'... doubly read Cristowell by Blackmore.'Robert Louis Stevenson Richard Doddridge BlackmoreCristowellPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have hear...Vero Walter Garratt CriterionPrint: Serial / periodical


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