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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 found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read it again, a message from a distant planet, with its...Ralph Glasser [unknown][acceptance letter from Oxford University]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I found the proof of ?John Knox? waiting me here, and have despatched it.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson?John Knox and his Relations with Women??Print: Proof copy.
1800-1849'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I assure you that I heard, no inferior or ordinary Judge...lady friends of CrabbeSamuel RogersHuman Life, A PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I assure you that I heard, no inferior or ordinary Judge...George Crabbe Samuel RogersHuman Life, A PoemPrint: Book
1900-1945'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is lost and the book produces the effect of being a mer...Joseph Conrad George Bradshaw (ed)Bradshaw's Monthly General Railway and Steam Navig...Print: Book
1900-1945'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is lost and the book produces the effect of being a mer...Joseph Conrad The ABC or Alphabetical Railway GuidePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I gather from a review that the conclusion of the book has not been printed in the Fortnightly?& this the most interesting part of the book. For this reason I should li...Arnold Bennett unknownReview of H.G. Wells' The First Men on the MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I gave her E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India". She- "I'm not sure, but I believe I've read it. I don't really remember." Rest of conversation not recorded, above remar...E. M. ForsterA Passage to IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I gave her the telegram. She, poor lady, like a good many people in those days could not read or write, she opened the envelope, looked at the message, then with f...Walter Elliott [telegram]
1900-1945'I get "Lorna Doone". It is a good book so far.'Thomas Kitching Richard Doddridge BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1900-1945'I get a library book, "Dandelion Days". Written on the back cover is an extraordinary message deated 15.1.42 at the General Hopsital, thus: "23.25 - what the hell has th...Thomas Kitching [unknown][marginalia in Dandelion Days]Manuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'I get my letter; it is from Pip [Tom's sister, Phyllis] and is dated June 21st, 1942. She says Colin looks absolutely splendid and is fighting fit; he is proud of us. An...Thomas Kitching [letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I glance through the papers at breakfast time, and give them careful attention before and after lunch. I glance through the evening papers when I get home at night.' NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I go to the library; luckily there is no queue. I get "Trent's Last Case" - a grand book. I've read it at least three times in a previous existence.'Thomas Kitching E. C. BentleyTrent's Last CasePrint: Book
1900-1945'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read...William and Martha DoddAmbassador Dodd's DiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read...Tiberius GYour M.PPrint: Book
1800-1849'I got my [first] peep into "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Arabian Nights" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even though these two wonderful books have been read and e...William Tinsley Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I got my [first] peep into "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Arabian Nights" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even though these two wonderful books have been read and e...William Tinsley anonArabian NightsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I got out of the mine about 5-30 had my dinner at once & then read several chapters in St Marks gospel ...'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Mark)Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I got the play ["The Breaking Point"] at 9 this morning. I've shut myself up with it at once and I won't come out of the room. I will see no one, will let no word or th...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe Breaking PointPrint: unclear whether MS or printed playscript


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