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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'Into white clothes but it was not very warm. Read Shway Yoe all day and played Bridge after dinner.' Gertrude Bell Shway Yoe (pseud. Sir George Scott)The Burman: His Life and Notions Print: Book
1800-1849'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wish...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerGodolphinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wish...Mary Shelley Lady Caroline Lucy Scott [pseud.]Marriage in High Life, APrint: Book
1850-1899'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name? ["Tea at the Mains", by Harriette Cheape] It was ex...Margaret Oliphant Harriette CheapeTea at the MainsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Is it the third or the fifth book of Virgil you so much liked; I have taken to reading the third.'Robert Louis Stevenson VirgilThe Aeneid, Books III and probably VPrint: Book
1850-1899'Is Mr Child married? I am always wanting to write & thank him for his Ballads, which I delight in' [she then deprecates her own letter writing style and says she is put ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis James ChildBalladsPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'Is not "Cinq Mars" very fine? I should like to read more of De Vigny'.Harriet Martineau Alfred de VignyCinq MarsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Is not this verse pretty? Thou wast that all [sic] to me, love, For which my soul did pine -- A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine.' Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan PoeTo One in Paradise (1834)Print: Book
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen Richard Grant White[on Copyright]Print: Book
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen VariousSaturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen Richard Grant WhiteWashington AdamsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I should have grieved to see you well treated in the same...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas De QuinceyReview of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhel...Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Isaac Wilson in his paper of the 16th inst said that the Poll was settled at Preston and Cobbett thrown out, but it appears the contest is still continued, but without a...Robert Sharp The Hull AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Isle of Wight by Anne Maria Sargeant A light so varied bursts upon my view, ...'Bowly groupAnne Maria SargentThe Isle of WightUnknown
1900-1945'It appealed to me - I like books about the country and farms and country life in general. (Lost Fields: McLaverty)'Michael McLavertyLost FieldsPrint: Book
1900-1945'It appeareth to me that you have attempted the impossible in 'The Secret City'. Therefore be not surprised if I think you have not achieved the same.' Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe Secret CityPrint: Book
1800-1849'It appears by the Times that there are several dreadful houses in the Neighbourhood of Bow Street, where the unthinking are robbed of their property...'Robert Sharp The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'It bears marks of being written by an English Tory High Churchman, the last very abundantly, but there is much in it very striking & elevating. Above all it holds an ade...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Samuel WilberforceA History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Am...Print: Book
1600-1699'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a play of Flechers, being "A wife for a month" - wherein...Samuel Pepys John FletcherA wife for a monthPrint: Book
1800-1849'It being Sunday, we read prayers from a Bible and a Prayer Book that were picked up on the field at Bhoodkhak. The service was scarcely finished when a clannish row comm...Florentia Sale Bible and Prayer BookPrint: Book


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