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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'Gold Else'Sarah Good Eugenie MarlittGold ElsePrint: Book
1850-1899His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years').John Buchan Kenneth GrahameGolden AgePrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Apuleius'Mary Shelley ApuleiusGolden Ass, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'Mary Shelley ApuleiusGolden Ass, The (Metamorphoses)Print: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned Jeremy Taylor's using, in his forms of prayer, "I am the chief of sinners", and other such self-condemning expressions. "Now, (said I) this cannot be said wi...James Boswell Jeremy TaylorGolden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and li...Print: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "I do not approve of figurative expressions in addressing the Supreme Being; and I never use them. Taylor gives a very good advice: 'Never lie in your prayers; ...Samuel Johnson Jeremy TaylorGolden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and li...Print: Book
1900-1945'I read "Golden Horn" by F. Yeats Brown. He was a prisoner in Turkish hands for two-and-a-half years. As in all these prisoners biographies, they had much more latitude c...Thomas Kitching F Yeats BrownGolden HornPrint: Book
1900-1945'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finished reading Book I of "Golden Treasury". Sisters and ...William Soutar [unknown]Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were rea...Hilary Spalding Thomas Palgrave (ed)Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury (ed.)Print: Book
1800-1849'I felt low and naturally prone to be irritable, and from the deep feeling of the difficulties in doing my part towards my family, led me to pant for liberation from thos...Elizabeth Fry C.H.V. BogatskyGolden Treasury for the Children of GodPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in prison with Keats and Tennyson - regretted that that poe...Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury of English Song and LyricsPrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury of English Songs and LyricsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘This morning that extraordinarily unequal collection "The Golden Treasury" came out of its hiding place, and served to astonish me once more with its lasting wonders...Ivor Bertie Gurney Francis Turner Palgrave (ed)Golden Treasury of English Songs and LyricsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury of English Songs and LyricsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fortunately, the casualties were not very heavy and we varied the time by hunting rats and watching the mice playing about in the dug-outs. My own favourite practice was...Vero Walter Garratt Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.)Golden Treasury, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'... when evening came I sought the isolation of a disused hut at the bottom of a garden and revelled in poetic creations by candlelight as a solace to my distraught mind...Vero Walter Garratt Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.)Golden Treasury, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astonishing skill and verve, but too diffuse by far in its movem...Arnold Bennett Robert NicholsGolgotha & Co. Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Margaret MitchellGone with the WindPrint: Book
1900-1945'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".'Margaret MitchellGone with the WindPrint: Book


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