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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'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".'Hilary Spalding Angela ThirkellHeadmistress, ThePrint: 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 George SavaHealing Knife, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding George SavaHealing Knife, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have heard, too, that several workmen in shops adjacent to Sutherland's library arranged with him for a reading of "The Heart of Midlothian" and "Rob Roy", one of the ...workmenWalter ScottHeart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1900-1945'You ask me whether I prefer a long letter or a short letter. I prefer a long letter to a short letter. No, I am not reading Shakespeare just at present. I am readi...Maurice Baring O. HenryHeart of the WestPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding George Bernard ShawHeartbreak HousePrint: Book
1900-1945 'Speaking of the drama, you should read the preface to Shaw’s new book of plays. As a journalistic performance it is of the very highest order. Nobody can state a ca...Arnold Bennett G. B. ShawHeartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets Ab...Print: Book
1850-1899" ... Charles Kingsley ... told ... [its] publisher that ... [Heartsease] was 'the most delightful and wholesome novel I ever read ... I found myself wiping my eyes a doz...Charles Kingsley Charlotte M. YongeHeartseasePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Polly Stamper [n/a]Heartsease LibraryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Heartsease LibraryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Finish the Heautontimorumenos of Terence'Mary Shelley TerenceHeautontimorumenosPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads L.[ord] B.[yron]'s - Heaven and Earth in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronHeaven and EarthManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring ... unknownHeavenly TrouserPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers rea...Elizabeth Barrett Hebrew BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half wa...Elizabeth Barrett Hebrew lexiconPrint: Book
1800-1849'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'.Thomas Babington Macaulay George Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did not send them me--they are not worthy of him--trust o...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'When coldness wraps this suffering clay ... Hebrew Melodies'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesUnknown
1800-1849'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must be Lady B's. He is not equal to Moore for [italics]...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can only weep to see how little just judgement there is...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronHebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty"Print: Book


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