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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'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Elsie Harrod Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Isabel Taylor Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Bruce Dilks Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Roger Moore Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Howard Smith Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Muriel Stevens Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Arnold Joselin Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...		Rosamund Wallis Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'Distich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallows the Great, Thames Street, London'. Elizabeth Lyttelton anonDistich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallo...Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Dante AlighieriDivina CommediaPrint: Book
1850-1899'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help W...Oscar Wilde Dante AlighieriDivina CommediaPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Naples, 1826', C.M.G. describes the city and (mis)quotes a line from Dante, "Inferno," Canto 7: "Qu...C.M.G. [anon] Dante AlighieriDivina Commedia: InfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington Bishop ButlerDivine AnalogyPrint: Book
1800-1849'What I thus learned was, I think, much enforced by the perusal of that well-known little book, Watt's "Divine and Moral Songs", which I read with so much interest as to ...Thomas Carter Isaac WattsDivine and Moral SongsPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] stolid, second rate, a snob, & very vain [...] Reads ...Sir Ronald Storrs Dante AlighieriDivine ComedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and the conduct of the story; and it has had the best evi...Samuel Johnson Dante AlighieriDivine ComedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Italian quite comes up to K's promises about its easiness and on Sunday I read the first 200 lines of Dante with much success. By the end of term I should be able to r...Clive Staples Lewis Dante AlighieriDivine ComedyPrint: Book
1850-18996 December 1886: 'I have just come in from Regent's Park, where, notwithstanding a bitter wind, I went and read my [Divine] service. Sunday is always such a sad day ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Divine servicePrint: Book


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