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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
 
1800-1849"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge of the tenets of each. This was supplemented by the...John Bedford Leno New Moral WorldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge of the tenets of each. This was supplemented by the...John Bedford Leno The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		"I found on entering Harborough the walls posted with a proclamation forbidding all meetings in favour of Chartism."John Bedford Leno [proclamations forbidding Chartists' meetings]Print: Poster
1800-1849'Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a ...John Cole European, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly...John Cole [books of topography and travel]Print: Book
1800-1849"Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive, amusing and well-written volume.'John Cole Wonders of the vegetable kingdom, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'...he wrote a poetical piece in my album in an almost unpremeditated manner; & finding it applicable to my History of Ecton, I have there printed it, entitled 'know thys...John Cole [poetry]Manuscript: Handwritten in Album
1800-1849'It was my practise on each Sunday of this summer to pray with him & read a sermon or portions of one to him, which gave him great satisfaction.'John Cole [sermons]Unknown
1800-1849'On my return I found that the printed copy of a letter from the late Mr Hinderwell had been left at my shop.'John Cole [printed letter]Print: Sheet
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Ezra Pound, having acquired a copy of Algernon Swinburne's Laus Veneris already annotated by somebody else, took pains to dissociate himself from the other's views [addi...Ezra Pound annotations in copy of Algernon Swinburne, Laus Ve...Manuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849" ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] voluminously annotated a Bible for [William Augustus, Lord] Conway's mother."Hester Lynch Piozzi The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a ...Rupert Brooke Minority Report of the Poor Law CommissionPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a ...Rupert Brooke books on metrePrint: Book
1900-1945'I was delighted to hear that the performance was so good, Sophie. I hear you have never sung better and I know what that means. It must have been a terrific show. I was ...Benjamin Britten [reviews]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thank you ? thank you - & thank you for a most marvellous show. ? I am more than grateful to you for having spend so much time & energy in learning it. I hope it wasn?t ...Benjamin Britten [reviews]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Referring to a concert in New York where one of his pieces was performed: 'The write-ups have been marvellous ? so I feel rather ?started? in New York now!' Benjamin Britten [concert review]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'In the November before, he had said to himself as he sat reading history, "I am 46. On the decline. why fill my head with knowledge?"'Arnold Bennett [history]Unknown
1800-1849"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in wh...Robert Southey The Works of the British PoetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "The Times" of 19 May, and on 21 May another long piec...Arnold Bennett Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Bos...anon Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Jo...Manuscript: annotation in printed text


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