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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
 
1800-1849'I have been seeking 'Falkland' here for a long time without success. Those beautiful extracts of it which you showed me at Tealby haunted me incessantly.'Alfred Tennyson Edward Bulwer-LyttonFalklandsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fa...George Eliot [pseud] Samuel DicksonFallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal ...Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Noel CowardFallen AngelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yes , I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I ...G.E.R. GedyeFallen BastionsPrint: Book
1700-1799'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "Well, sir, which of them did you think the best?" Bo...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonFalse Alarm, ThePrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, sh...Joseph Towers Samuel JohnsonFalse Alarm, ThePrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False Delicacy an English Comedy translated into French.'Claire Clairmont Hugh KellyFalse Delicacy, ou La Fausse DelicatessePrint: Book
1900-1945'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord ...Members of XII Book ClubEdward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord DunsanyFame and the PoetPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read and read "Fame is the Spur" which is gorgeous.'Hilary Spalding Howard SpringFame is the SpurPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'Howard SpringFame is the SpurPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question from interviewer] '- who, them? I enjoy travel books, ...Howard SpringFame is the SpurPrint: Book
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Scipioni AmmiratoFamiglie Nobili FiorentiniPrint: Book
1700-1799'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them with great pleasure and found many new beauties in ...Samuel Richardson Sarah FieldingFamiliar Letters Between the Principle Characters ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Lunched at Troyes, reached Bale at 7.30. Hotel Euler. Read Stevenson's "Men and Books" and Miss Warlson's "Horace Chase".' Gertrude Bell Robert Louis StevensonFamiliar Studies of Men and Books Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "My daughter is eighteen and my son eleven; that is my boy, sir; he's reading the Family Friend just now. M...anon Family FriendPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...anon Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "I take home the 'Family Herald', and read it with a great deal of pleasure, an...Abel Heywood Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "I take home the 'Family Herald', and read it with a great deal of pleasure, an...Heywood family Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen...William Edwin Adams [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and the "Family Herald". Once when Laura, coming home from...Flora Thompson [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical


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