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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
 
1800-1849'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they had excited my curiosity, and led to inquiry; and, as ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Martha Sherwood[Tales]Print: Book
1850-1899'I had some books to read & when I could get anything at all like an easy position in bed I stayed satisfied.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a poet myself...'Joseph Stamper [n/a][Penny Poets]Print: Book
1900-1945'I had tea at C.R.A. ... and then back to the château where we are now installed. Our room is immense and very cold but it is a fine place to be in ... The mess very comf...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson IllustrationsPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'I had the boy up tonight for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he doth pretty well.'Wayneman Birch [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, to translate a [italics] French Chanson a boire [end ...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][a French drinking song]Unknown
1800-1849'I had the Sunday School girls here last Sunday, and Susanna came to help me, and I thought we went off gloriously, only - (everything has its only) - in repeating our s...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had then to enter a drawing room full of company to receive numbers of foreigners, and our ambassador Lord William Russell, and many others in and out. After some went...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I had this morning a charming surprise in the shape of the "Spoils of Poynton" sent me by H. James with a very characteristic and friendly inscription on the flyleaf. I ...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe Spoils of PoyntonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had time yesterday to read your poem. In fact I read it three times. Once in the train. Once after luncheon in the library. And once before I went to bed.'Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-WestSolitudeUnknown
1850-1899'I had to close my door & light a candle, the dust was blowing in clouds and the air was full of it, it was like a mist, it obscured the Sun. I never saw the like o...James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]The Christian AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I had to confess [to his recently returned elder brother] that I had not read a line of his [Darwin's] work, that with the exception of Draper's "History of Civili...William Henry Hudson Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I had to confess [to his recently returned elder brother] that I had not read a line of his [Darwin's] work, that with the exception of Draper's "History of Civili...William Henry Hudson John William DraperThe History of the Intellectual Development of Eur...Print: Book
1900-1945'I had very little leisure time to lie with mother but read in the evening.'Anne Jenkins unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'I had worshipped Cole on the printed page, and my first sight of him in the flesh was fittingly magical.'Ralph Glasser G.D.H. Cole[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I had, indeed been extremely anxious to hear of poor Pacchierotti, for the account of his Illness in the newspapers had alarmed me very much.'Frances Burney [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I hadn't turned over the 3rd page when I let out a whistle of respectful admiration.' Hence follows a page of praise with one minor reservation.Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettLords and MastersPrint: playscript
1800-1849'I happened by chance when in this mood [melancholy], to open "The Lady of the Lake", and I thought, as I read it, so long as there were such sublime poems in the world t...Charlotte Bury Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I happened to open Madame de Stael's "Allemagne", and passed the whole night in reading that delightful work over again. The great charm in all her writings is, that the...Charlotte Bury Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1600-1699'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wise in the after none Iohn Corrow and he did read by ...John Corrow [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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