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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
 
1800-1849'In a letter addressed to me, dated Newcastle Jan 5 1829 from his son, Robert Elliot Benick, thanking me for a copy of 'The Scarborough Souvenir', he writes "this would h...John Cole Robert BenickletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'In a letter to Charles Boner (28 February 1851), Miss Mitford wrote that she had read L'Ecole des journalistes "in a Bruxelles edition with serveral feuilletons about it...Mary Russell Mitford Delphine de GirardinL'Ecole des journalistesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In a letter to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] of 10 March 1801, J[ohn] W[ordsworth] added that "Mr Lewis's poem [The Felon] is the most funny one I ever read ... "'John Wordsworth M. G. LewisFelon, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'In a letter to Mrs Herzog he says: "Wells's new novel, Marriage, of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of the atmosphere of married li...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMarriageManuscript: Unknown, proofs of book
1800-1849'In a letter to W[ordsworth] dated 16 April 1815 Lamb remarks: "Since I saw you I have had a treat in the reading way which does not come every day. The Latin Poems of V...Charles Lamb Vincent BourneLatin PoemsUnknown
1900-1945'In a little book of poems by J S Squire called Twelve Poems there is one poem called March which I think quite beautiful. Do you know Mr Squire? ... He writes to m...Maurice Baring John Collings SquireTwelve PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In a little book of poems by J S Squire called Twelve Poems there is one poem called March which I think quite beautiful. Do you know Mr Squire? ... He writes to m...Maurice Baring William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1900-1945'In a little book of poems by J S Squire called Twelve Poems there is one poem called March which I think quite beautiful. Do you know Mr Squire? ... He writes to m...Maurice Baring William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read "Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the im...Joseph Conrad William BeckfordVathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Cali...Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read "Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the im...Joseph Conrad Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales Print: Book
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read"Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the imm...Joseph Conrad Abu Zaid (and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt)The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare...Print: Book
1800-1849'In a mill town in the late 1840's, a group of girl operatives met at five o'clock in the morning to read Shakespeare for an hour before going to work.'William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945'In a much-thumbed copy of the "Figaro," dated October 25th—a copy which, it was said, had been dropped from an aeroplane, and which we secretly circulated from ward to w...Ian Vivian Hay Le FigaroPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository [...] a youth, named Thomas Noon Talfourd, was about this time [1816] making [...] first attempt...Martineau familyThomas Noon Talfourd"On the System of Malthus"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository, in which I made my first appearance in print, a youth, named Thomas Noon Talfourd, was about th...Harriet Martineau The Monthly RepositoryPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In a post-war record entitled "Bomber Offensive", Sir Arthur Harris himself described the ordeal of Hamburg, which caused civilian casualties variously estimated at betw...Vera Brittain Arthur HarrisBomber OffensivePrint: Book
1700-1799'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructive and improving work, Sarah Trimmer's sacred history...John Larpent Sarah TrimmerSacred historyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructive and improving work, Sarah Trimmer's sacred history...Anna Larpent Sarah TrimmerSacred historyPrint: Book
1850-1899'In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the New Testament and take the text, meine schone Freundin...Robert Louis Stevenson Paul Epistle to the Philippians, I.3Print: wristlet
1800-1849'In a short time after, I procured the "Life of Susan Hopley", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fiction.' [However, Ashford was inspired by this work t...Mary Ann Ashford Catherine CroweSusan Hopley; or the Adventures of a Maid ServantPrint: Book, Serial / periodical


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