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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 respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Hall Caine Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Shorthouse Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Edna LyallAutobiography of a SlanderPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Wilhelmina von HillernGeier-WallyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Frances Hodgson BurnettSurly Tim: A Lancashire StoryPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Margaret Oliphant Print: Unknown
1800-1849'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne Isabella Milbanke's] parents actively befriended. Wh...Anne Isabella Milbanke Joseph BlacketpoetryUnknown
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Mary Louisa MolesworthThe Cuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Chaplet of PearlsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1900-1945'In some respects this little work of criticism is the profoundest of Winifred's books.'Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbyVirginia WoolfPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.'Arnold Bennett The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'In spite of my vague memories of the South African campaigns, Spion Kop and Magersfontein were hardly more real to me than the battles between giants and mortals in the ...Vera Brittain Andrew LangAndrew Lang's Fairy BooksPrint: Book
1700-1799'In spring 1789 W[ordsworth]translated Horace's Ode to Apollo (Ode I xxxi) with the help of [Christopher] Smart's translation.'William Wordsworth HoraceWorks of Horace. Translated into English Prose, f...Print: Book
1800-1849'In studying the prophets, with a view of particularly examining the witness they bear to the Messiah, many things have occurred to me which it would have been useful to ...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1900-1945'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his opinions about Indian government reform until he no...Marie CorelliHoly OrdersPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the "Ency. Bri." article Porto-Bello the same account is given. They sat it was given by Columbus.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Encyclopedia BritanicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the "Evening Standard", Major-General Fuller commented acidly that the gigantic forces being raised in America suggested preparation for the next war rather than this...Vera Brittain John Frederick Charles Fullerarticle in the "Evening Standard"Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1800-1849'In the "Iris" of this day Dr M advertises the subjects of the two next lectures ...Montgomery [the editor] is very careful of what he says about the riots; a burnt child...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germany.'Vera Brittain Victor Gollanczarticle in the "Left News"Print: Serial / periodical


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