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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'"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h...Marjory Todd Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h...Marjory Todd Emily BronteWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often do." And that same week, she is agonizing over "one...Virginia Woolf Times Literary Supplement, ThePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can only weep to see how little just judgement there is...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronHebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty"Print: Book
1700-1799'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference...Samuel Johnson Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference...Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference...James Boswell Samuel Richardson[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference...James Boswell Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'"Sometimes although neither of us was gifted with a voice of much power..." (Captain Clapperton). Landar's Expedition - Captain Clapperton died of a fever at Soccatoo 1...Bowly groupRichard LanderRecords of Captain Clapperton's last expeditionUnknown
'"Stilted prose" was the rapid and unhesitating reply to whether ... [George Meredith] reckoned "The Light of Asia" a very fine poem, to the dismay of his questioner, who...Sir Edwin ArnoldThe Light of AsiaPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'"Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read "The Whole Duty of Man", from a great part of which I could...Samuel Johnson Richard AllestreeWhole Duty of Man, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'"Telo" one of the Age staff was hunting up material for an Article & spent the whole day in the prison. He had some lunch with us & also came in at tea time. We had some...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extract from it. Both Papers treat it as if it were origi...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extract from it. Both Papers treat it as if it were origi...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. This I scarcely ever feel about anything I see in prin...Richard Doddridge Blackmore George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'"The Bride of Lammermoor" was one of the first books that Laura read with absorbed interest. She adored the Master of Ravenswood, his dark haughty beauty, his flowing cl...Flora Thompson Sir Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1900-1945'"The censorship here is so close that I depend for most of my information upon "Time" and "Life"," I wrote to New York that summer.'Vera Brittain "Time" Magazine Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1900-1945'"The Changi Guardian" reports: "The Changi Cricket League, long expected, is now in being, thanks to the untiring energy of Mr Tom Kitching".'Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Changi Guardian" says in the "Do You Know?" pages: "That each dawn is now broken by the patter of running feet - two enthusiasts, etc!" The editors must have been a...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Changi Guardian", in its cricket report, says: "Kitching fought the vigorous attack amid rising excitement and, when the final two came just before time, there was ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper


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