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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'"I prefer the Daily Telegraph because I feel that the news is more genuine than the other daily newspaper print. I like my news presented to me without emotional 'co... Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I first glance at the personal columns, probably because they are on the front of the paper. Then I turn to the middle pages where the leading articles appear. Otherwise... Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I prefer the Daily Telegraph because I feel that the news is more genuine than the other daily newspapers print. I like my news presented to me without emotional 'colour... Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was repelled at home, rather than encouraged to read, and I never remember to have seen a book in my elders' hands. Literature was limited to the "Daily Telegraph". To...Okey family, parents and grandparents of Thomas Okey [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Davitt meets with a fellow prisoner released on ticket-of-leave: '"I promised you", he exclaimed upon meeting me, "that I would live 'on the square' in future, and here ...Michael Davitt [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer made of soot or lampblack". "Daily Telegraph". June...John Ruskin [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".'John Ruskin [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'What we did have in the common room was the Daily Telegraph, which I never read, except the racing results.' Hilary Spalding Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am sending you a cutting out of the "Daily Telegraph" of Aug 30th containing the London Gazette wherein I am transferred to a Service Battalion and taken off probation...Bernard Wilfrid Long Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'My astonishment was great when, after the National Anthem, the Colonel, who was standing beside me, turned to me and said, "I hear you have the Military Cross. Is it tru...Douglas Herbert Bell Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945The Daily Telegraph interview with Mussolini makes me sick. What fools they are. Every word M. said was just vague nonsense: anyone who knows Italians can see how h...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consult the "Daily Telegraph Supplement"; host offers Obse... [n/a]Daily Telegraph SupplementPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Breakfast ready and finished dressing 7.45. Read "Daily Worker".' [n/a]Daily WorkerPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I a... Daily WorkerPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 9 March 1853:

'I have tried to read "Daisy Burns"; at the close of the Ist Vol. I stopped. I must not give an opinion o...		Charlotte Brontë Julia KavanaghDaisy Burns (vol. 1)Print: Book
1800-1849'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel in "The Daisy Chain". Great interest was expressed by...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charlotte YongeDaisy Chain, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says 'I say' rather too many times is very probable (I tho...Henry James Henry JamesDaisy MillerPrint: Book
1850-1899Leon Edel notes: "In the weeks after his mother's death H[enry]J[ames] converted 'Daisy Miler' into a play, and before sailing read it to Mrs. [Isabella Stewart]Gardner."...Henry James Henry JamesDaisy MillerUnknown
1600-1699'So I made Gosnell [sing] and we sat up, looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how the time went; and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys PlayfordDancing Master OR English Dancing MasterPrint: Book


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