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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'I had a long conversation in the tram yesterday with an old maid who had just come back from Florence & talked about pictures, & when I said that I thought Giotto was mo...Ford Madox FordHolbeinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay Catherine SinclairHoliday HousePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in Lubbock's "hundred". It took time, of course: it wa...Thomas A. Jackson Jeremy TaylorHoly DyingPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in Lubbock's "hundred". It took time, of course: it wa...Thomas A. Jackson Jeremy TaylorHoly LivingPrint: Book
1900-1945'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his opinions about Indian government reform until he no...Marie CorelliHoly OrdersPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came across phrases that puzzled me, such as "sans-culotte...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Holy ScripturesPrint: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] copied a brief quotation from Donne's "Death be not proud" into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ["Death be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dread...William Wordsworth John DonneHoly Sonnet 10Unknown
1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were...Mary Russell Mitford Dr Kittoholy versesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene 22. II 1937
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (by F.E.P. in regretted absence of the Secretary) & approv...		Reginald H. Robson Robert BrowningHoly-Cross DayUnknown
1800-1849'To... ...' 'There are who strangely love to roam/And find in wildest haunts their home/...' ['Home' ll. 13-22]Margaret Maingay [probably] Josiah ConderHomePrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Home - by J Conder' 'That is not home, where day by day, /...'Bowly groupJosiah ConderHomeUnknown
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1900-1945		' ... Jean Curtis Brown and her friend Lucy [consumed] the forbidden magazine "Home Chat", borrowed from the kitchen on the cook's night out.'Jean Curtis Brown and friend Home ChatPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its As...anon [n/a]Home Friend - a weekly miscellanyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Home MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did. The Athenaeum compares these books to Miss Aust...Elizabeth Barrett Mary HowittHome, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat...John Cole Alexander PopeHomerPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read "Homer Travestied" (the first twelve books), becaus...George Gordon Lord Byron Anon.Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that g...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Homeri Hymni et epigrammataPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Homeri Hymni et epigrammataPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very very much obliged to you for sending us the Homeward Mail. We read it from end to end; title page, & printer's name'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Homeward Mail, ThePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical


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