Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   440 441 442 443 444  445  446 447 448 449 450   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Pearl Mary Theresa CraigieLetters from a Silent StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey William Makepeace ThackerayThe History of Henry EsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the ...Print: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Thomas Jonathan Jackson[Military History]Print: Book
1800-1849'I will return Cavendish in a few days - It is very clever - but the beginning is best - & it is immoral - why [wr]ite about certain things; it is bad enough that they ar...Mary Shelley William Johnson NealeCavendish; or, the Patrician at SeaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I will send you soon a note on Miss Kingsley's book on Africa. C'est un voyageur et un écrivain très remarquable. Her opinions on questions dealing with the colonies a...Joseph Conrad Mary KingsleyWest African StudiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I will send you soon a note on Miss Kingsley's book on Africa. C'est un voyageur et un écrivain très remarquable. Her opinions of questions dealing with the colonies a...Joseph Conrad Mary KingsleyWest African StudiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more "[Fables of] La Fontaine" to me, in the Béthune dia...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will talk to you at length about the stories when you are well enough to come down here for the weekend.[...]. The value of these tales relies in the "nuances" of colo...Joseph Conrad Richard CurleThe Echo of Voices Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I wish I could lay my hands on the numbers of the "Review", for I know I wished to say something on that head more particularly than I can from memory; […] I was very mu...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett MartinBret Harte in Relation to Modern Fiction.Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I wish I hadn?t read the first part of 'Tono-Bungay' so often. I shall have to read it yet again in order to get the hang of the last part.' Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsTono BungayPrint: Book, proofs of novel
1850-1899'I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to an end, and every one I know is always dreading the ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anthony TrollopeFramley ParsonagePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I wish you had been present when I opened the parcel and read the title page, the exclamations, the elevated voices, the "O Mama pray let me look" and "O Mama may [itali...Anne Romilly Maria Edgeworth[title page of a children's book]Print: Book
1900-1945'I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an advertisement enclosed with the letter]. I don't kno...Ford Madox Ford [n/a][newspaper classifieds]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1700-1799'I wish you would cannonade this N[ewto]n. I cannot bear, that another of Apollo's genuine Offspring should pass down to future Times with such crude and unworthy Notes.'Samuel Richardson John MiltonParadise LostPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, a...Louisa, Lady Stuart Ellis Cornelia KnightSir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, a...Louisa Clinton Ellis Cornelia KnightSir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of ItalyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wish you would send me the Daily Mail every other day, & also magazines (Pearsons etc) would be immensely appreciated. I see by a paper of the 18th that Whitby and S...Henry William Williamson [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I woke up feeling extremely bored with life ... it was a foul day, like yesterday. I did exactly the same things ... During the forenoon the sea gave signs of goin...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Serial / periodical


Go to page: [1]   440 441 442 443 444  445  446 447 448 449 450   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design