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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 remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lover...Howard R. Smith Maurice HewlettForest Lovers, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'There’s a bit in my diary about Forever Amber which was notorious. My mother surprisingly read it first and let me read it. But my great friend ...Hilary Spalding Kathleen WindsorForever AmberPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Forget Thee?" By the Rev John Moultrie [transcript of poem].Mary Groom Rev. John MoultrieForget Thee?Unknown
1850-1899'Many thanks for your letter and the instalment of Forrester which accompanied it, and which I read with amusement and pleasure.'Robert Louis Stevenson James Walter FerrierForresterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some of Ruskin?s manifestoes to the world.?Leslie Stephen John RuskinFors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers...Print: Book
1850-1899"Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of mind, wh. is scarcely compatible with perfect sanity. Y...Leslie Stephen John RuskinFors [Clavigera]Print: Book
1850-1899'The Irish part of ''Forster's Life'' is very painful and interesting. [...] It is very good anti-Home Rule reading and makes one think worse than ever of Parnell.'Emma Darwin unknown unknownForster's LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring ...John GalsworthyForsyte SagaPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved...Hilary Spalding John GalsworthyForsyte SagaPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing September 21, 1778 'Were I not afraid of the imputation of pedantic affectation, I could make this clear by a learned quotation from M.T. Cicero?s fo...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Marcus Tullius CiceroFortieth orationPrint: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleFortitudePrint: Book
1900-1945 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are not on a level with the other three. [Mr Perrin and Mr ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleFortitudePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from ...Mary Robson Hugh WalpoleFortitudePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'Mary Shelley Frances HolcroftFortitude and Frailty: a novelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish F[anny] H.[olcroft]'s novel - read Suetonius'Mary Shelley Frances HolcroftFortitude and Frailty: a novel'Print: Book
1900-1945'Thank you very much for sending the Fortnightly Leaflet with your history of the robin. It is a charming paper—written charmingly and very interesting.’William Henry Hudson Ethel WilliamsFortnightly LeafletPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'... and then nearly fell asleep over the Fortnightly. Morley is very jolly; so is Marat.'Robert Louis Stevenson Fortnightly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'By Swinburne's conversion, I meant no reference to his divagations about 'Rizpah', which I did not honour with perusal, but to other matter in that article which I shall...Robert Louis Stevenson Fortnightly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'John Ruskin [n/a]Fortnightly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1500-1599Before he was Bachelor of Arts he read Stapletons Fortress of the Faith, and therein finding how confidently he asserted Antiquity for the Popish Tenets, withall, brandin...James Usher StapletonFortress of the FaithPrint: Book


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