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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
 
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite...Edwin Muir Henry Wadsworth LongfellowExcelsiorPrint: Book
1900-1945'13th February 1929 I note from ?Excelsior? that the ?Kings? or their representatives, the princes and princesses allied to the French Royal house have arrived at the...Gerald Moore ExcelsiorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Alida [Klementaski] bought for thirty shillings a West Highland terrier which she had seen advertised in "Exchange and Mart".'Alida Klementaski Exchange and MartPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The Excursion – Saturday 7th July.

Plans laid for our entertainment led to a delightful outing.

Ufton Court proved a most interesting + even th...		Driving members of the XII Book Club[Unknown member of XII Book Club] Excursion to Ufton CourtManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'The Excursion – Saturday 7th July.

Plans laid for our entertainment led to a delightful outing.

Ufton Court proved a most interesting + even th...		Victor Alexander [Unknown member of XII Book Club] Excursion to Ufton CourtManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs Knott yesterday with the Ex[cursio]n in hand, William ...William Wordsworth William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs Knott yesterday with the Ex[cursio]n in hand, Willia...Miss Knott William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 31 December 1815: 'In reading the 3rd Book of the Excursion last night what a pang did I feel for our poor widowed Friend Mrs Lu...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthExcursion, TheManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but one was never able to read more than two or three cons...Gwen Raverat William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.'George Henry Lewes William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley... brings home Wordsworth's Excursion of which we read a part - much disapointed - He is a slave'.Mary Godwin and Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three bo...James Hogg William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and challenges you fairly to a trial but after a seriou...James Hogg and John WilsonWilliam WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affect...James Hogg William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was m...Francis Jeffrey William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget w...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd over a new vol of provincial poems by a neighbouring poet Bantums "Excursions of Fancy" and poor fancys I find them' [lists vols by other local poets]John Clare John BantonExcursions of FancyPrint: Book
1800-1849' ... the first three stanzas and two concluding stanzas of [Thoms] Campbell's poem [The Exile of Erin] were copied and pasted by S[ara] H[utchinson] into the Wordsworth ...Sara Hutchinson Thomas CampbellExile of Erin, TheUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'When your Letter arrived I was in the act of reading to Mrs W[ordsworth] your Exile, which pleased me more, I thin...William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesExile, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The book [Existence afer Death Implied by Science][...] as a mere piece of writing may be described as being breathless itself and taking the reader's breath away, not...Joseph Conrad Jasper B. HuntExistence after Death Implied by SciencePrint: Book


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