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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'It is most wonderfully resembling [italics] The Song of Solomon [italics], which was also addressed to a royal bride.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Song of Songs (Old Testament)Print: Book
1850-1899'It is necessary to explain, O Argive youth, that I have been reading the translations of Bohn, cunningly written with a reed upon the well-prepared tablets'.Robert Louis Stevenson Henry George BohnunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'It is not my interest to recommend it but in justice to what I owe to your amusement I must advise you to read the Lettres du Marquis de Roselle, if you have not yet see...Horace Walpole Pierre-Laurent Buirette de BelloyLe Siege de CalaisPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is now about 2am. Yesterday evening when I got up I discovered a parcel waiting for me. I opened it in semi darkness and was not able to make out all the contents, ...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Ludlow Advertiser and Craven Arms GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It is now about time that Tertia read "La Chartreuse de Parme". Maguerite has just read it.

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I have subscribed to the M[anchester] Guardia...		Arnold Bennett Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It is now about time that Tertia read "La Chartreuse de Parme". Maguerite has just read it.

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I have subscribed to the M[anchester] Guardia...		Arnold Bennett Stendhal (pseud.) La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is now about time that Tertia read "La Chartreuse de Parme". Maguerite has just read it.

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I have subscribed to the M[anchester] Guardia...		Marguerite Bennett Stendhal (pseud.)La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1800-1849'It is now half past twelve, & having heard Lizzy [JA's niece] read, I am moved down into the Library for the sake of a fire...'Lizzy Knight unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1600-1699'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how people may be surprized'Samuel Pepys Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about the British Army, even if we had time to read them, a...Douglas Herbert Bell  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'It is St Patrick's Day - there is a reading of "The White Headed Boy" by an Irish author with an Irish cast.'Thomas Kitching Lennox RobinsonThe White Headed BoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has...Antonia White Rainer Maria RilkeNotebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has...Antonia White [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'It is surprising how irritating it is when simple little questions or arguments arise which none of us can settle because we have no other sources of information than ou...Albert John Martin William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1800-1849'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ...Thomas Carlyle John BristedAmerica and her ResourcesPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is the voice of the years that are gone! They roll before me with all their deeds. Ossian! Newstead! Fast falling, once resplendent dome!/...' 'Elegy on Newstead Abb...Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronElegy on Newstead AbbeyUnknown
1700-1799'It is true, the excellence of the Iliad does not depend upon his merit or dignity, but I wish, nevertheless, that Homer had chosen a hero somewhat less pettish and less ...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu HomerIliadPrint: Book
1850-1899'It is truly not for nothing that I have read my Buckley.'Robert Louis Stevenson Theodore William Alois BuckleyunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say it wrong: but when she is sitting on the bed in the m...Esther Julia Ford [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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