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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'The book which I had ordered had arrived and gives me the same exciting feeling when I glance into it - I have told you before how I want you to read ?Dodsworth?, and n...Lesley Edna Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am well into ?Dodsworth? and am liking it. It is very interesting though I find that Lewis has rather a ?green?, a youthful way of talking about Europe which makes the...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'I still like ?Dodsworth?, and now am a little sorry for Mrs. She certainly does seem to lose herself and he is something of a dunderhead though he is so honest and wel...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had rece...		Reginald H. Robson Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Dog Beneath the Skin", a most peculiar play.'Hilary Spalding W.H. AudenDog Beneath the Skin, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'During Mr Montgomery's stay he read books from my library, and on his returning Byron's Doge of Venice.'James Montgomery George Gordon, Lord ByronDoge of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt co...Frederick Edminson Henrik IbsenDoll's House, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt co...Frederick Edminson Henrik IbsenDoll's House, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.'William Makepeace Thackeray Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum kn...Arthur Harding Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'When in years to come, I read "Dombey and Son", certain features of Mrs Pipchin did irresistibly remind me of my excellent past governess.'Edmund Gosse Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of Dombey & Son which I had lent me last evening by Mr Reed.'John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read for an hour or so & then turned into bed'John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible death of Mrs Skewton in Dickens' abominable "Dombey".'John Ruskin Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1900-1945I have just started my “Dombey & Son” having at last reached a place where books are not very plentiful. But it is not long enough to last for many a day.Arthur Morris Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our four girls could see something of Scotland'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Robert ChambersDomestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House 27/2/30

R. H. Robson in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
5. The subject of “Medieval Social Life” wh...		Mrs. C. Elliott Mrs. C. ElliottDomestic Life in the Fifteenth Century as seen in ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeDomestic Manners of the AmericansPrint: Book
1900-1945[Marginalia]: there are two annotators, one using blue ink and one red. All ms notes take the form of additional genealogical information ie pp. 4-7 added dates and peopl...Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (eds)Domestic papers of the Rose familyPrint: Book


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