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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'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Wallace's life from the autobiography reading a number of...Henry Marriage Wallis Alfred Russel Wallace[scientific writings]Print: Book
1900-1945'At other times he would tell me about the Malay Archipelago and the Malays and show me pictures in A. R. Wallace's book about that part of the world. [...] He would rea...Joseph Conrad Alfred Russel WallaceThe Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan a...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Wallace in "the Academy" ... in future histories of science the Wallace-Darwin episode will form one of the few bright points among rival claimants.....Erasmus Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace[articles in the 'Academy']
1850-1899'I have been greatly interested by the second article in the 'Spectator', and by Wallace's long article in the 'Academy'. I see I have had no influence on him, and his Re...Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace[article in the 'Academy']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You may as well say, which is a truth, that I do read bi[o]graphy and memoirs. History has a fascination for me. Naval, military, political'. [The following was delete...Joseph Conrad Alfred Russel WallaceThe Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan,...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You may as well say, which is a truth, that I do read bi[o]graphy and memoirs. History has a fascination for me. Naval, military, political'. [The following was delete...Joseph Conrad Alfred Russel WallaceThe Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan,...Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, Rome] I said not a word - and came home and read Harn...Mary Augusta Ward Alfred von Harnack Print: Book
1900-1945‘A violent rain after midnight drenched my clothes and tackle in pockets thereof, including the fair Tennyson.’ Edmund Blunden Alfred, Lord TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Father saw me off at Naples — I felt most dreadfully sad at saying goodbye to my dear family, but I consoled myself by reading "Ulysses" which is a most beautiful ...Gertrude Bell Alfred, Lord TennysonUlyssesPrint: Book
1850-1899'That time Lord Tennyson was delightful - kind and friendly and full of stories, talking a great deal, and in the best of humours. He read the Funeral Ode to us afterwar...Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord TennysonFuneral OdePrint: Book
1850-1899Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing...Alice Thompson Alfred, Lord TennysonunknownUnknown
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, T...questionaire respondent Alfred, Lord Tennyson[unknown]Print: 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, later Baron Shinwell Alfred, Lord Tennyson[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson, and my mother, all agitated in defence of her i...Mrs Hughes Alfred, Lord TennysonLocksley HallPrint: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Alfred, Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'.William John Brown Alfred, Lord TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Dying SwanPrint: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding Alfred, Lord TennysonLotos Eaters, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading Tennyson's "Summer Evening", which is a lovely poem, full of pictures.'Hilary Spalding Alfred, Lord TennysonSummer EveningPrint: Book
1800-1849?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the business. My duties were to clean books and knives and br...William Edwin Adams Alfred, Lord Tennyson[poems]Print: Book


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