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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
 
1700-1799'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family of Hanover. The authour of the celebrated "Heroick Ep...James Boswell William MasonHeroick Epistle to Sir William ChambersPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family of Hanover. The authour of the celebrated "Heroick Ep...Oliver Goldsmith William MasonHeroick Epistle to Sir William ChambersPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing Frederika BremerHerthaPrint: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact....Alice Foley Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.Hilary Spalding Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading Longfellow's Hiawatha'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesHenry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Charles E. Stansfield Lewis CarrollHiawatha’s PhotographingUnknown
1900-1945'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have hear...Vero Walter Garratt Hibbert's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.George Eliot [pseud.] Daniel RockHierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the MassPrint: Book
1850-1899' "Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flattered that you discern some points of similitude. Of ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamHigginson's DreamPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'By the same post with the ordered copy of the E[nglish] R[eview]arrived the charming cahier des vers ["High Germany"] inscribed to us both. I have been turning over it...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford High GermanyPrint: Book
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'Talking of the "Farce of High Life below Stairs", he said, "Here is a Farce, which is really v...Samuel Johnson James TownleyHigh Life Below StairsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] August [1914:] By waters of Germany.
Queenie's whim.
Timothy's Guest.
Basil Lyndhurst.
Highway of Fate.
Lamp Lighter
Boo...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Rosa Nouchette CareyHighway of Fate, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39 R. H. Robson in the chair.
[...]
2. R. H. Robson gave an introductory sketch of Hilaire Belloc & hi...		Victor Alexander Hilaire BellocHills and the SeaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a second time) ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone OrmeHindustanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: "Hints for the times", true and useful, but a painful instance of the weak and conventional writing whic...John Ruskin George SmithHints for the timesPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes that Coleridge wrote "an extraordinary set of notes ... designed to help [Robert] Southey with a review" into a copy of James Sedgwick, Hints to the P...Samuel Taylor Coleridge James SedgwickHints to the Public and Legislature, on the Nature...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James SedgwickHints to the Public and the Legislature on the nat...Print: Book


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