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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
 
1900-1945I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom knows what a strike is about. . . No paper gives impart...Arnold Bennett ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Feeling rather miz at the moment as I have been reading three days worth of the "Express" and "Evening Standard". They really fill me with alarm. I simply shall be una...Harold Nicolson ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945 My objection to the policy of the 'Express' of late is that I can’t understand it—nor have I met anyone else who can. Therefore, however good the policy may be, the pap...Arnold Bennett ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—"Exton Manor" by Archibald Marshall and "Justice" by Galsworthy, which I have...Douglas Herbert Bell Archibald MarshallExton ManorPrint: Book
1900-1945"Which reminds me I noticed an extract from Ben Jonson the other day which said 'the third requisite in our poet, or maker, is imitation... to follow him (Auden, in my ca...Philip Larkin Ben JonsonextractUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 11 January 1845: 'Mr Kenyon has read to me an extract from a private letter -- addressed by H. Martineau to Moxon the publisher, .. to ...John Kenyon Harriet Martineauextract from letter to Edward Moxon, reporting sea...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it ws too witty and brilliant. He then wrote it over aga...Sydney Smith Basil HallExtracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of C...Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficul...Leonard Woolf Marie Corelliextracts from novelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she had not seen the Book [The Excursion], had seen nothi...Hannah More William Wordsworthextracts from The ExcursionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'So it was you that sent me "Miss Berry"! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much as I do; but nobody I see had any clear idea of that...Harriet Martineau Theresa LewisExtracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Mis...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Tom, an Oxford contemporary] Following an elite fashion among moneyed aesthetes, he published, privately, a slim volume of poems on thick hand-made paper - "Eyes of Ado...Ralph Glasser Tom Eyes of AdonisPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]EzekielPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading "Faber fortunae", which I can never read too often.'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind Grays Inne, making an end of reading over my dear "Faber Fortunae" of my Lord Bacon's'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to Deptford to enquire after a little business there; and thence by water back again, all the way coming and going reading my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae", which...Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure every time, I reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae".'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to dinner, and to discourse with my brother upon his translation of my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae" which I gave him to do; and he hath done it but meanly, I am...John Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'And in the garden reading "Faber fortunae" with great pleasure. So home to bed.'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitaePrint: Book
1600-1699'Up and to my office; and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's "faber Fortune", which the oftener I read the more I admire.'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent George Bernard ShawFabian EssaysPrint: Book


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