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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 remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although this play was Goldsmith's first experiment in writing ...Ernest E. Unwin Oliver GoldsmithGood-natured Man, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Robert GravesGoodbye to All ThatPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley Christopher IsherwoodGoodbye to BerlinPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a little with that mannered & sterile Bussy now [...] I...Virginia Woolf Henry WilliamsonGoodbye West CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] He cant move an inch from the glare of his own person...Virginia Woolf Henry WilliamsonGoodbye West CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Margaret Dilks James HiltonGoodbye, Mr. ChipsPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not know whether I shall like it as well now. May 1, 1837...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages which his wonderful talents, and his command of tem...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter].Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the place of Polus, Socrates would hardly have had so ea...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what terrible, though delicate, ridicule! A bitter fellow, ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Callicles says. He is wrong in not perceiving that th...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek literature. Plato is a real poet."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be more afraid of wronging than of being wronged, and ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that to die is gain, even if death were nothing more tha...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Nothing was ever written, or spoken, approaching in sobe...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843: 'Did I tell you that I have been reading through an M.S. translation of the Gorgias of Plato, by a Mr Hyman of...Elizabeth Barrett Plato GorgiasManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a street entertainer -a 'blind reader': "I was not born blind, but lost my sight four years ago, in consequence of an aneurism... At last I tho...anon GospelPrint: Book
1600-1699'a Bible lying near her, she took it up, and opened it in the presence of the Company, who observing what place it was openend at, they found it to be the seventeenth ...Sarah Bower GospelPrint: Book


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