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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'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'Archibald Joseph CroninThe Stars Looked DownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'Howard SpringFame is the SpurPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like autobiography and I love a good thriller - I can't bear funny books other than Stephen Leacock. I don't like a man who sets out to be funny.'Stephen LeacockunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I like Capt. Younghusband's travels, though one might skip pages much like each other.'Emma Darwin Frances Edward YounghusbandThe Heart of a Continent:a Narrative of Travels in...Print: Book
1900-1945'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detective stories, I like Naomi Jacobs' early ones. I read ...Naomi Jacobs[early works]Print: Book
1900-1945'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detective stories, I like Naomi Jacobs' early ones. I read ...Richard LlewellynHow Green was My ValleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detective stories, I like Naomi Jacobs' early ones. I read ...Faith BaldwinConflictPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detective stories, I like Naomi Jacobs' early ones. I read ...Dorothy ConyerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like his Brave New World but I do not think any of his other books are much good, in fact they bore me profoundly.'Aldous HuxleyBrave new worldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like immensely your verse in the last E[nglish R[eview]. The second piece for choice but as a matter of fact I like best the one I am reading at the time.' Joseph Conrad John Galsworthyunspecified poem(s)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I like last week's "Romance" by the Student in Arms very much - in some ways as much as the other, tho' perhaps you will not agree with me.'Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey'Romance'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I like light reading - something to occupy my mind so that I can knit and read at the same time - something that I can pick up and put down again without a feeling of b... unknown[light reading]Print: Book
1900-1945'I like reading. I can sit down and read a good thriller and start on it again immediately I have finished it, but nothing else ... As I've tried to explain I can't find ... [unknown][thrillers]Print: Book
1800-1849'I like some things in the last Mag. very well but there is a grievious [sic] falling off in Cunningham's Cameronian The one is a drawing from life the other a compositio...James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Recollections of Mark Macrabin the Cameronian'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I like the "Rover", better than any of your other verse.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse'Rover'
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Patrick KeithSystems of Physiological BotanyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe [unknown][Travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Johan Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Denis ChavisArabian Tales; or, A Continuation of The Arabian N...Print: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Thomas WartonHistory of English Poetry, ThePrint: Book


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