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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'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Walter BesantThe Orange GirlPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Mary Elizabeth BraddonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Ellen WoodunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad The Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful I...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'It was during Michaelmas term of 1874 that Wilde first opened "Studies in the History of the Renaissance", a collection of art essays penned by the Oxford Classics don W...Oscar Wilde Walter PaterStudies in the History of the RenaiisancePrint: Book
1850-1899'it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's "Journal".'Mary Augusta Ward Henri Frederic AmielJournal IntimePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was entirely due to its colour that another book became my constant companion. This was an illustrated Scripture text-book, given to me on my seventh birthday, and st...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes  Print: Book
1900-1945'It was ever so good of you to have sent me the Hogarth little book. I knew practically nothing of the man and I was glad to learn.' Hence follow 13 lines of praise.Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettHogarthPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was explained to all "She is of the Sahib people, she gave in my house 4 annas and to a man in the street 2 annas, she has come for the purpose of seeing: Now she goe...Gertrude Bell The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and great literature. There were articles on 'aspects' of R...Edwin Muir Great ThoughtsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It was from [my father, a policeman] that I acquired the habit, which I have never been able to shake off, of reading in bed; and one of my most vivid recollections is o...Desmond Malone Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying on the sofa between the dining-room windows with th...Gwen Raverat Thomas Bewick Print: Book
1900-1945'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favour of God, it was Pickwick Papers ... At some stage i...Ernest Raymond Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in 1886 [...] that Mrs Ward began seriously to read Greek, usually with her ten-year-old son; she bought a Thucydides in Godalming one day and was delighted to fi...Mary Ward Thucydides Print: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1700-1799'It was in one of those cheerful moods that I one day took up The Life of John Buncle; and it is impossible for my friend to imagine with what eagerness and pleasure I re...James Lackington Thomas AmoryThe life of John BunclePrint: Book
1800-1849'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, whi...Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in LeedsWilliam CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, whi...Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in LeedsRichard CarlileRepublicanPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical


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