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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[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Daphne Du MaurierFrenchman's CreekPrint: Book
1800-1849'I began to work myself a Chemisette - read "Frere Paschal" and laughed most violently as well as Eugenia'..Harriet Wynne Paschal - or perhaps this is the title of a workFrere Paschal - or perhaps Paschal is the authorPrint: 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 R. GreeneFriar Bacon & Friar BungayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk, warm and many coloured than for the cold blue tint...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettFriday Nights: Literary Criticism and Appreciatio...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Coleridge's "Friend", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry'John Ruskin Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFriendPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘ … thank you immensely for "Friends" [W. W. Gibson], an unforgettable book … My town-pride received a shock yesterday—and my pocket. Cridland and I went to Salisbury...Ivor Bertie Gurney Wilfrid Wilson GibsonFriendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the first place you say you do not call The 3 paths a nov...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur HelpsFriends in CouncilPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Friends in Council'.' Mary Holland Arthur HelpsFriends in Council: A Series of Readings and Disco...Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 20 September 1849:

'I read with pleasure "Friends in Council," and with very great pleasure "The Thoughts and Opinions of a...		Charlotte Brontë Arthur HelpsFriends in Council: A Series of Readings and Disco...Print: Book
1800-1849In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1803 edition of poem).George Gordon, Lord Byron William CowperFriendshipUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “Friendship” by the Revd Francis Murray.Catherine Austen Rev. Francis MurrayFriendshipUnknown
1850-189914 July 1878: 'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gordon's daughter, very mischievous. Presently C[harles...Enid Layard Ouida FriendshipPrint: Book
1850-1899'I remember [...] [Tennyson's] reading with admiration this passage from Maurice's Friendship of Books. "If I do not give you extracts from any of Milton's specially cont...Alfred Tennyson F. D. MauriceFriendship of BooksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing numbers. I really anticipate good news of it this yea...James Hogg Thomas Pringle [ed.]Friendship's OfferingPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'friendship, love & truth / montgomery'Mary Groom James MontgomeryFriendship, love and truthUnknown
1850-1899 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories w...children and mothersBrenda NewFroggy's Little BrotherPrint: Book
1800-1849'Some of my friends think that the introduction and moral of the "Frogs" are too highly wrought and polished for the simplicity of the fable; it is however a very ingenio...James Hogg John AitkenFrogs, The: A FablePrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in...Arnold Bennett Geoffrey BulloughFrom BondageManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history: "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ranked seco...Harry Lauder William M. ThayerFrom Log Cabin to White HousePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931: 'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them partly reading Princess Daisy of Pless, speculati...Virginia Woolf Princess Daisy of PlessFrom My Private DiaryPrint: Book


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