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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 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir Joseph Conrad Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir James Joyce Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir David Herbert Lawrence Print: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William Cowper Print: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
1900-1945'...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him "thin and tedious", says he will try "Splendeurs et ...Arnold Bennett Balzac Print: Book
1900-1945'. . .he was annoyed with Capes for misquoting his enthusiasm for Joyce in an advertisement for "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"'.Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement
1900-1945'There Bennett worked on his novel, read Dreiser and Balzac, . . .'Arnold Bennett Theodore Dreiser Print: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1600-1699"The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote: "'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me. "'The 14...Wat Conniston Josephus  Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811: 'Do you wish to see us tonight, G[eorgiana]. with a veil and shawl, near the fire...Mr Canning  Print: Unknown
1850-1899'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter...Maud du Puy Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Unknown
1850-1899'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter...Maud du Puy Robert Browning Print: Unknown
1850-1899'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter...Maud du Puy Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Unknown
1900-1945'On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past. His old friend George Sturt was dead.'Arnold Bennett  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Bennett had seen a placard announcing its publication in Cassell's "Storyteller" magazine on Victoria Station just before his departure for Sicily in April.'Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement, Poster
1900-1945'Bennett, Dorothy, and the Board of Sloane Productions Ltd read all the notices the next day and found them satisfactory.'Arnold Bennett  Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield John Ruskin Print: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield William Morris Print: Book


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