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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
 
1500-1599'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'Gabriel Harvey Frontinus The stratagemesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Incidentally I have read the enchanting volume of Page's letters to President Wilson which Aunt Maisie [Stanley] angelically sent me. Is not he the best letter writer th...Gertrude Bell Burton Jesse HendrickLife and Letters of W. H. PagePrint: Book
1850-1899'Inclosed [sic] please find XXX to XXXV of Songs of Innocence ... If a man wishes to live forever and be happy, let him write Songs of Innocence: I cannot tell you how ha...Robert Louis Stevenson William BlakeSongs of Innocence and ExperiencePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Indeed if I had printed all the poetry that has been sent to me for that Purpose, since I came to this Kingdom, it would have proved as odd a Medley as any thing ever ye...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][poetry by various correspondents]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Indeed it were to wished that either this learned and excellent Divine [Dr Delany], or some other of equal Abilities, if such may be found, would oblige the World with a...Laetitia Pilkington [n/a]Old TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating li...Robert Lowery [history]Print: Book
1800-1849'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating li...Robert Lowery [poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating li...Robert Lowery [imaginative literature]Print: Book
1900-1945'Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I had read those pages you have been so good as to dedic...Joseph Conrad Violet HuntThe House of Many MirrorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Infinite thanks for the honour [dedication] and for the book ["The House of Many Mirrors"]. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing till I had read tho...Joseph Conrad Violet Hunt The House of Many MirrorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Infinite thanks for the most precious and admirable volume [Knave of Hearts] [...] meanwhile I am as ever yours with admiration of the poet and affection for the man...'Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsKnave of HeartsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Inspected Mr Dash's large collection of books.' John Cole variousPrint: Book
1900-1945'Inspired by the novels of Baroness Orczy about the Scarlet Pimpernel, I wrote a piece about Robespierre. O Robespierre, thou sea-green immobile, Thy soul, deep-stain...Charles Causley Emma Orczy[Scarlet Pimpernel novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have appeared to have more merit in the execution of the w...James Boswell William MasonMemoirs of GrayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Instead of mustering this afternoon I went to the Yorick. The men were however arguing politics & I held my tongue & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Intellectually, he seems to have been most concerned with the affairs of Middleton Murry's new periodical, the "Adelphi". . . . doesn't like Murry's layout and advertis...Arnold Bennett Mioddleton MurryAdelphi, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible often does open there, but it was a happy first readi...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1800-1849'interesting, but I should say indicative of rather a deficient moral standard & Providential recognition'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth [Articles on the French Revolution and Robespierre...Print: Serial / periodical
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1850-1899		'Interview with a execution broadsheet seller visiting poor villages in Norfolk: 'Not long after Rush was hung, he saw, one evening after dark, through the uncurtained co... [broadsheet of Rush's execution]Print: Broadsheet
1900-1945'Into my mind flashed the "New York Times" headlines which I had read over breakfast that morning.'Vera Brittain New York TimesPrint: Newspaper


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