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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'I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life, - & I thought if he were again brought before the p...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I drew out of Pennant a View of the Ruins of Clerkenwell Church'Joseph Hunter Thomas PennantAccount of LondonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I drove into town ... with Miss Greaves and read the English papers which came [by ship]. Oh! the injustice shown the Irish by the House of Lords ... Oh! the injustice ...William Richard Grahame n/aThe Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I employed myself in the evening, reading Lord John Russell's life of his ancestor Lord William Russell. The preface is modest, dignified, and forcible; the narrative is...Charlotte Bury Lord John RussellLife of William Lord Russell, with Some Account of...Print: Book
1700-1799'I employed the day in reading Hume's "History", which enlarged my views, filled me with great ideas, and rendered me happy'James Boswell David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'I enclose another review. Fancy Eton masters setting my book as a classic to turn into Latin verse.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I enclose in this envelope a copy of the 'Economic Review of the Foreign Press'. . . . I know the periodical very well as I have read it consistently for over three ye...Arnold Bennett Economic Review of the Foreign PressPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I enclose you two poems one by Mr Riddell which I have copied and corrected a sublime and beautiful thing, its only fault being a small shade of redundancy of thought bu...James Hogg Henry Scott Ridell'Ode to the Harp of Zion'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety that you do; and that Monday, setting of partridges - Tuesday, reading English - Wednesday, studyi...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'I endeavoured to counteract this depression by reading the Bible, the only book I had besides a Prayer Book and a Protestant manual called the "Narrow Way", and by forci...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring ...Negley FarsonTravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring ...W.M. ThackerayThe History of PendennisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring ...John GalsworthyForsyte SagaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring ... unknownHeavenly TrouserPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy this peaceful interval of sickness and read the works of Jane Austen, released from a fear of death which, ever present in this land of unknown diseases, s...Freya Stark Jane Austen[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex. I have not yet had time to comp...Winifred Agnes Moore [French newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex. I have not yet had time to comp...Winifred Agnes Moore Theodore de BanvilleGringoirePrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex. I have not yet had time to comp...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLe Blois VertPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoyed the poem ? please send all the new ones ? I always carry ?madrigal? in my pocket!' Benjamin Britten Wulff Scherchen[poem]Manuscript: Letter


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