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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'In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's "A Modern Instance" as "a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterly unidealised realism, not by any means the ideal 'i...Arthur Symons William Dean HowellsA Modern InstancePrint: Book
1850-1899'In April [1857] a report reached us that old Tom Moore was dying. A friend writes: "This darling old poet is only just alive, mind and body. X goes over frequently to se...Thomas Moore Alfred TennysonpoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read....Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1850-1899'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read....Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonDedication, OEnoneUnknown
1850-1899'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read....Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOEnoneUnknown
1700-1799'In Archbishop Laud's Diary I found the following passage, which I read to Dr. Johnson: "1623. February 1, Sunday. I stood by the most illustrious Prince Charles, at d...James Boswell William Laud[diary]Print: Book
1800-1849'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Mag...James Hogg ['Literary Gossip' articles in Newcastle Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Mag...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Mag...James Hogg [possibly] the 'Edinburgh Advertiser'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In Aunt-Judy 1885'Sarah Good Horatia Katharine Frances GattyJuliana Horatia Ewing and Her BooksPrint: Book
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1600-1699		'In Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor Fido" (1591) [Gabriel] Harvey sometimes places a tiny letter symbol above a textual passage and an explanatory note or translation in th...Gabriel Harvey Battista GuariniIl Pastor FidoPrint: Book
1900-1945'In bed all day. Bob Craig and Janie Clark in afternoon. Bob gave me "Traffics and Discoveries". Leg much better. Bailleul has fallen. Damn and Blast it!'Guy Mainwaring Knocker Rudyard KiplingTraffics and DiscoveriesPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'In bed all day. Dad and Mum came in the afternoon, Great. Nickie and Northwood called after. Read and smoked all day. Played bridge. Huns have got Messines ... this is a...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'In bed all day. Elsie in afternoon. Read and smoked all day.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'In bed all day. Read and smoked. Talked rot to the T.wire most of the time. About time I went home, the Day sister hates me! ... Leg rather sore.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a copy out of my own pocket money before you were wea...Virginia Woolf George CrabbeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'in came the Rector with, "I have just been at the Hall, Ly Maria has just got the "Court Journal", which says "Trevelyan" was written by Ly S. of Petersham".' [n/a]Court JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In common with thousands of other people I have been doing knitting during the raids. In normal times I never have time to knit as all my spare time is spend in reading ... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'In compliance with frequent entreaties I took the MSS [of The White Doe of Rylstone] to [Charles] Lamb's to read it, or part of it, one evening. There unluckily I found...William Wordsworth William WordsworthWhite Doe of Rylstone, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject. Besides, it is no...Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-HolsteinConsiderations Sur La Revolution FrancaisePrint: Book


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