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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'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also read the book reviews in "John O' London's". Quite of... [unknown]Guide to EdinburghPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... a tourist guide to Salisbury Cathedral, published about 1800 and acquired by the British Library in 1874, contains notes made by an unidentified annotator who suppl...anon guide to Salisbury CathedralPrint: Book
1850-1899'For scientific notions I had Dr. Brewer's "Guide to Science", in the form of a catechism.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Dr BrewerGuide to SciencePrint: Book
1850-1899'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote laughing in an hour or two − and I got − ...Robert Louis Stevenson John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of LorneGuido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera.Print: Book
1900-1945'About 2/3rds of this play is undoubtedly very fine. I think it weakens in structure in the 3rd act. . . . I only met the dedication tonight. Thanks. It is very agreea...Arnold Bennett Robert NicholsGuillty SoulsPrint: completed draft of play
1900-1945'Have read Guilty Women by Richard Baxter. He calls Edda Mussolini the most dangerous woman in Europe.'Vere Hodgson Richard BaxterGuilty WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of the King" will be understood and admired by many who a...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899The Crown Princess of Prussia to Alfred Tennyson, 23 February 1862: 'The first time I ever heard the "Idylls of the King" was last year, when I found both the Queen an...Prince Albert Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899'May 3rd. [1866] After dinner the Upper Sixth came in, and at their petition [Tennyson] read "Guinevere," refusing however enthronement in a large arm-chair, and assertin...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal, 1890-91: 'Aug. 6th. [1890] Aldworth. The Duchess of Albany came to luncheon with us in honour of my father's eighty-first birthday [......Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-189917 July 1859: 'I sat, very sad, in the garden [at Exeter House], took up Tennyson's Guinevere, and was engrossed with it. Arthur is the noblest creature that ever live...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1700-1799"Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of...William Wordsworth Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. A...Hugh Miller Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn found them out & recommended them, & if the judgement ...Jane Austen Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: 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 Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ...William Edwin Adams Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished, afterwards, "Gulliver's Travels". Could this severe satire....'Thomas Green Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book


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