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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 in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's B...William Henry Davies unknownFreddie's FriendPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: ms note, in pencil, in French, on verso of half-title, may relate to text or may refer to works by authors eg ' ...Esprit...,... La Fontaine...,... Rochefo... AnonFrederic le GrandPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas CarlyleFrederick the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lady Vavasour's "Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau". - It is only one Volume, & is very entertaining and often clever, & l...Sarah Harriet Burney Frederick ShoberlFrederick the Great, His Court and TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [under...Sarah Harriet Burney Frederick ShoberlFrederick the Great, His Court and TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinFrederick Walker. In Memoriam.Print: Given the date of the letter, RLS may have read the article in proof.
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I do not at all admire this letter. Indeed Middleton ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Conyers MiddletonFree Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Chr...Print: Book
1700-1799'[a young man] Mr Allen - resolved to take Orders and made proper Application: The Bishop asked him of course what he had read. why but little replied he to be sure, for ...Mr Allen Soame JenningsFree Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of EvilPrint: Book
1900-1945I moved to Marie Corelli and there I found a book of newspaper articles called 'Free Opinions'. The type was large. The words were easy, rather contemptibly so. I read an...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marie CorelliFree OpinionsPrint: Book, Newspaper
1900-1945'As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempted by Marian's opinions ... And so she proceeded to ...Vero Walter Garratt FreedomPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief introduction & read an article from Nov 1914 Scribners. ...Rosamund Wallis John GalsworthyFreelands, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indicium. The "Freeman's Journal", one number of which I...John Mitchel [n/a]Freeman's JournalPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'27th - I have just had a visit from two American ship-captains, whose vessels lie here. They approached me most reverentially, gave me some fine language, and very proba...John Mitchel [n/a]Freeman's JournalPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow...Ruth Slate FreewomanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 19 September 1842: 'Granville [husband] has found you out in the Fremdenbuch, and all our friends a...Lord Granville FremdenbuchPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.

1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.

[...] 		Rosamund Wallis G. K. ChestertonFrench and EnglishPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 October 1751: 'I am sick of all human greatness and activity, and so would you be if you had been turning over with me five gr...Catherine Talbot Bernard de MontfauconFrench AntiquitiesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Constantin Heger (in source eds' translation from French), 24 July 1844:] 'I greatly fear that I shall forget French [...] To avoid such a misfort...Charlotte Bronte French book/sPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean. ...Winifred Agnes Moore Albert GuerardFrench Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle ...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"... [the young Cicely Hamilton] found a dusty copy of Eugene Sue's Juif Errant in a cupboard and with the aid of a dictionary, read it from cover to cover. The fact tha...Cicely Hammill French dictionaryPrint: Book


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