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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'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, odd...Mr Glasser [unknown][books in English]Print: Book
1900-1945'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the ...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history an...Ralph Glasser [unknown][books of biography, history, philosophy, etc]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser [unknown][books on politics]Print: Book
1900-1945'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read it again, a message from a distant planet, with its...Ralph Glasser [unknown][acceptance letter from Oxford University]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'With her shiny black apron she cleaned her Woolworth's spectacles, thick lenses in metal frames with wire side pieces, and read the letter, screwing up her eyes'.Rachel [unknown][Ralph Glasser's acceptance letter from Oxford Uni...Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until neighbours compained about the noise I made in the e...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'One day, alone for a moment in a girl's room in Lady Margaret Hall - she had gone to fetch a tea-pot from along the corridor - I saw that she had left her diary open, it...Ralph Glasser [unknown][a girl's diary]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945'I was intensely interested in the Romantics at this time, that explosion of creative thought so inadequately explained in reading and in lectures. We talked of French an...Ralph Glasser [unknown][Romantic texts and works about Romanticism]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][German poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][citation for bravery]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'There [living in a better area than previously, after his reformation from being a gambling addict], in his practical fashion, he [Glasser's father] looked after himself...Mr Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'A colleague at the Council, later to achieve distinction as a poet, sent me a copy of his first slim volume of verse with a note: "This is to get you into trouble with t...Ralph Glasser [unknown][poems]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I hard one read of ardentons book, and after I talked with Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][ardenton's book]Print: Book
1800-1849'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; admitting her taste with unusual frankness: "I did n...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read of both in English and Scotch history, which I always...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][history books]Print: Book
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully...Richard Lovell Edgeworth [unknown][Reports on Mendicity]Print: Unknown
1500-1599'After priuat praier I went about the house, and reed, did eate my breakfast, then I reed againe tell dinner time, then praied'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I did read of a good book, and then went about the house: then I reed againe'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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