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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
 
1700-1799Transcribed (not entirely accurately) in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes from a later edition of the grammar by Edward Leedes, headmaster of King Edwar...Edward Pordage Edward LeedesEnglish Examples. To be Turned into LatinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all life, or almost alive; they are admirably true to nat...John Cole John HornseyEnglish Exercises, orthographical and grammatical ...Print: Book
1800-1849'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules of punctuation, I applied myself to the study of Lin...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Lindley MurrayEnglish grammarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 13th April, Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehearsal fell through however owing to the Settlement b...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayEnglish Humourists of the Eighteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the death...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth WhatelyEnglish Life, Social and Domestic, in the 19th Cen...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Boswell having complained that he was suffering from melancholy, Johnson wrote] 'Read Cheyne's "English Malady"; but do not let him teach you a foolish notion that mela...Samuel Johnson George CheyneEnglish Malady, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in some things; but there is no end of objections. There ...Samuel Johnson George CheyneEnglish Malady, The: or, A Treatise of Nervous Dis...Print: Book
1800-1849'His Irish book seems to me from the little I have read very clever.'Alfred Tennyson Aubrey de VereEnglish Misdeeds and Irish MisrulePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading your Odes; a lovely little book.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund GosseEnglish OdesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- such is the wreckage dealt by 4 days of conversation [....Lytton Strachey Stephen Hobhouse and A. Fenner Brockway, edsEnglish Prisons Today. Being the Report of the Pri...Print: Book
1900-1945‘You letter gave me great pleasure; and for once I took your advice on a matter of books, to the extent of buying that World’s Classics Selection you mentioned (I hav...Ivor Bertie Gurney William PeacockEnglish Prose from Mandeville to RuskinPrint: Book
1900-1945Our first lessons were from Ford Madox Ford's 'English Review' which was publishing some of the best young writers of the time. We discussed Bridges and Masefield... For ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Ford Madox FordEnglish ReviewPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have hear...Vero Walter Garratt English ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 28 October 1864: "What are you reading? I have just read Vaughan's Eng. Revolutions in Religion. Interesting subject but middling ...Henry James VaughanEnglish Revolutions in ReligionPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Got up late for breakfast but felt so awful that Mary took my temperature which was over 100 and sent me straight back to bed, where I remained, dozing and reading — Tre...James Lees-Milne George Macaulay TrevelyanEnglish Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries ...Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, letter composed between 29 October-3 November 1838: 'I have just finished the play of which you read the beginning in England -- my "En...Harriet St. Leger Fanny KembleEnglish TragedyManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal d...Henry Marriage Wallis Laurence HousmanEnglishwoman's Love-letters, AnPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'A district visitor was delivering tracts among a large meeting of some poor folk to whom she had lately read part of "Enoch Arden." "Thank you ma'am," one old lady said,...anon Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864: 'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now [...] "Enoch" continues the perfect thing I thought...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1868: 'Dr Hook asked A. to read "Enoch Arden." He replied he could not to-day. Dr Hook thereupon began in fun to read it so ba...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book


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