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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
 
1700-1799"Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of...William Wordsworth Jonathan SwiftA Tale of a TubPrint: Book
1800-1849"Under his instruction - while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and Moliere's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' - I caught hold of such good French pron...Thomas Cooper MoliereLe Bourgeois GentilhommePrint: Book
1800-1849"Under his instruction -while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' of Moliere - I caught hold of such good French pron...Thomas Cooper VoltaireCharles the TwelfthPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...Vera Brittain popular novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...Vera Brittain Household MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...Vera Brittain The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...Vera Brittain Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...Vera Brittain George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1800-1849"Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's declaration that if they were married, he and the Co...Walter Savage Landor Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of B...Print: 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"What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this amazing, but most amusing, book has been read, and rer...George Otto Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe ward of Thorpe-CombePrint: Book
1700-1799"What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is the Bible more Entertaining and Instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are add...William Blake HomerunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1600-1699"What originally made [Robert] Boyle so 'passionate a Friend to Reading,' he was wont to say, 'was the accidentall Perusall of Quintus Curtius.' This ancient romance of ...Robert Boyle Quintus CurtiusPrint: Book
1900-1945"When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at Alderley Park, the verdict was that 'it was terribly ...Mrs Humphrey Ward Mrs Humphrey WardCanadian BornUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		"When John Brand had a copy of his Observations on Popular Antiquities (1777) interleaved to take materials for a revised edition, he drafted a paragraph of acknowledgeme...Francis Douce John BrandObservations on Popular AntiquitiesPrint: Book
1700-1799"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of h...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaighannotations to Samuel Richardson, Pamela
1700-1799"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of h...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaighannotations to Samuel Richardson, ClarissaManuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849"When she was seven ... [Frances Power Cobbe's] interest in religious subjects had been activated by hearing Bunyan read aloud to her brothers." Frances Power Cobbe John Bunyan Print: Book
1600-1699"When [Isaac] Newton arrived at Greenwich in September 1694, the astronomer [John Flamsteed] showed him 157 lunar positions calculated at the observatory ... Newton asked...Isaac Newton John Flamsteedastronomical calculations (lunar positions)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945"Which reminds me I noticed an extract from Ben Jonson the other day which said 'the third requisite in our poet, or maker, is imitation... to follow him (Auden, in my ca...Philip Larkin Ben JonsonextractUnknown


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