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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'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from ...George Burrow Thomas HardyDynasts, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. The international murderess episodes take but a littl...Joseph Conrad Stefan ZeromskiDzieje grzechuPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry JonesEarl of Essex, The, a tragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellEarl's Daughter, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. I read myself Mrs. Barbauld's '"Come hither Char...Elizabeth Barrett Maria EdgeworthEarly LessonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'The first books which are now usually put into the hands of a child are Mrs. Barbauld's "Lessons"; they are by far the best books of the kind that have ever appeared.' (...Maria Edgeworth Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin)Early Lessons for ChildrenPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell early Methodist magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
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1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia]: 4 lines of ms notes on the binding page are now rubbed and difficult to decipher but appear to be notes of references to specific pages eg ;'joys 96, 95-6 t...George BurderEarly piety: or, memoirs of children eminently ser...Print: Book
1800-1849'After reading some of [...] [Mary Tighe's] early poems in manuscript, F[elicia]H[emans] wrote a sonnet, "On Records of Immature Genius"'. Felicia Hemans Mary Tigheearly poemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Early Rising' 'Just at the early peep of dawn...' [transcribes text] 'Clare'.Mary Dugdale John ClareEarly RisingUnknown
1900-1945'Am reading, at long last, "Early Stages" by John Gielgud.'Hilary Spalding John GielgudEarly StagesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read a lot of John Gielgud's autobiography. He is no writer but it is interesting nevertheless.' Vere Hodgson John GielgudEarly StagesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in revi...Elizabeth Edminson William MorrisEarthly ParadisePrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this l...George Gissing William MorrisEarthly Paradise, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [superscript 'recited'] some parts of Sigurd the Volsung & ...Charles Evans William MorrisEarthly Paradise, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [superscript 'recited'] some parts of Sigurd the Volsung & ...Katherine Evans William MorrisEarthly Paradise, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [superscript 'recited'] some parts of Sigurd the Volsung & ...Reginald Robson William MorrisEarthly Paradise, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, "Stayed in bed until dinner. I read 'East Lynne' till my eyes ached."'Lady Cynthia Asquith Mrs Henry WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1850-1899'Annie Swan [from Leith] ... vividly recalled the occasion when her mother "surprised us all by retiring to her room for a whole day, abandoning everything. The mystery ...Mrs Swan Mrs Henry WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1850-1899'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story Teller", that she got from the public library. My fa...Polly Stamper Mrs Henry [Ellen] WoodEast LynnePrint: Book


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