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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 was much better pleased with it ["Foscari"] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somewhat highly raised. The interest begins at once, and...Eleanor Anne Porden Mary Russell MitfordFoscariManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I was much disturbed this morning & was up reading at two o'clock the mosquitoes not allowing me to get to sleep'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I was much interested in your "Saturday [Review]" article [apparently about birds in Kew Gardens].'William Henry Hudson J. Rudge Harding'A Woodpecker at Kew'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I was much pleased to find myself with Johnson at Greenwich, which he celebrates in his "London" as a favourite scene. I had the poem in my pocket, and read the lines al...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonLondon: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of...Print: Book
'I was much pleased with your last Review upon the whole which was the only No. I ever read; it is a much more amusing Review than the Edin. and I should think more engag...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I was much surprised at [what] Charteris said of John Stuart Mill. "Seemed to have been kind and benevolent" is used where, for any one else, he would have said '"was" k...Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh CourantPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was never forbidden but once in my life to read any book, and that was by my stupid governess, who forbade me to read 'Old St. Paul's', by Harrison Ainsworth... I prom...Emily Lytton Harrison AinsworthOld St. Paul'sPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was no better reconciled to staying at home when I read in "The Times" a few weeks after my return that the persistent German raiders had at last succeeded in their in...Vera Brittain The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of the S.M., I did open it; by Fors order, at Deuteronom...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Deuteronomy)Print: Book
1800-1849'I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, which has just been lent me...'Fanny Trollope unknownjournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I was one day called aside, and a hand-bill was given me; and thinking it to be a quack doctor's bill for a certain disease, I expressed my suprise at its being given to...James Lackington John Biggs[conversion narrative]Print: Handbill
1700-1799'I was one Day exceedingly surprised when the Penny-post brought a Letter, directed to my Son; as it was marked [italics] Teddington [end italics] I open'd it, judging it...Laetitia Pilkington Mrs Meade[letter to LP's son, Jack]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I was out like a lark at nine this morning to breakfast with Isabel Paterson - who did not expect me till one, Sunday breakfast here being alleesamee lunch. So she was n...Ford Madox Ford Isabel Paterson[manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I was passionately fond of poetry, being led to its study by accidentally meeting with Milton's minor poems, when about fourteen years of age. Though so young, I was i...John Leatherland John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was placed in the lowest class with three other little girls of my own age, who were reading aloud the story of Richard Arkwright.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes  Print: Book
1900-1945'I was pleased to receive your letter and tin of salmon. It is now Sunday night and it as [sic] been very hot we have had church parade this afternoon as we where [...William Henry Bonser Lamin Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I was pleased to see in the Examiner a mention of the pension [to be granted to Hunt]' [letter to Leigh Hunt]Mary Shelley [n/a]ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I was pleased to see your quotation from Clough. I used it myself in an approximate form, and with doubtful attribution to C., in another article ..'Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Hugh CloughAmours de VoyagePrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Strand MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]WindsorPrint: Serial / periodical


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