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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?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in...Leslie Stephen The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in...Leslie Stephen The WorldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899"I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th century sermons. Lord! how dull they are - almost as dull...Leslie Stephen [18th and 19th century sermons]Print: Book
1900-1945'Aubrey Hicks offers an illustration of how little world news reached even the best-informed workers. His father, a painter on the Rothschild estate at Tring, had attende...Aubrey Hicks Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.'Arnold Bennett The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'George Bernard Shaw The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'.Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonPrint: Book
1850-1899"I am spending a quiet Sunday morning in Birbeck's smoking room - reading a novel."Leslie Stephen [Novel]Print: Book
1800-1849[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and without doing it with a dictionary like other lessons'.Thomas Babington Macaulay BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ myself in reading, and Mr Preston lends me any book...Thomas Babington Macaulay  Print: Book
1800-1849'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from the London papers.'Thomas Babington Macaulay  Print: Newspaper
1850-1899" It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive order one verse,in the early morning before breakfast....Edmund Gosse BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899"I have led a specially quiet life of late; amusing myself by reading a little biography for a change - a good many Newmanite lives in particular. Some day I shall remark...Leslie Stephen [biographies]Print: Book
1850-1899" He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and these he had so magnificently bound in full morocco t...Edmund Gosse Greek New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899"The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained with great elocution what you were to do if you met ...Leslie Stephen ["The Bear Book"]Print: Book
1850-1899"I am, I see, talking pessimism. It is not very easy to talk anything else just now. When I read our debates, I sometimes think that we are doing our best to exemplify th...Leslie Stephen The Latterday PamphletsPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899"I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly."Leslie Stephen  Print: Book
1850-1899"I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even see a paper expect the Pall Mall Gazette wh. I read...Leslie Stephen Pall Mall GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the "exercises" of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers...Leslie Stephen Proceedings of the PBKPrint: Proceedings
1850-1899'On these awful dark days there is no work to be done; so this morning after answering notes and paying bills and doing everything I hate doing, I sat down in a very depr...Kate Perugini  Print: Unknown


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