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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'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Mark TwainHuckleberry FinnPrint: Book
1800-1849'I came home and read Hudibras and William Byrd ...'William Richard Grahame Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of "Hudibras", which I buy not but borrow to read, to see if it be a...Samuel Pepys Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to compare me to Hudibras, "Who could not ope/ His mouth bu...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1700-1799[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his ...Jonathan Swift Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] "Hudibras" affords a strong proof how much hold political principles had then upon the minds of men. There is in "Hudibras" a great deal of bullion which ...Samuel Johnson Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
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
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir Robert Michael BallantyneHudson Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799'As my Peace has never been disturbed by the [italics] soft Passion [end italics], so it seldom comes into my head to talk of it. - one day however after reading the odd ...Hester Lynch Thrale HuetaniaPrint: Book
1900-19455 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half asleep; through the rift reading Steen (author of Stal...Virginia Woolf Marguerite SteenHugh Walpole: A StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The voyage took a month.[...] We had collected all the available literature about Nanda Devi, and before long we knew the whole story off by heart. I taught Tilman w...Eric Shipton Hugo's UrduPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?'George Crabbe Christopher BensonHulsean Lectures for 1822: On Scripture Difficulti...Print: Book
1900-1945'About the same time a correspondent sent me a copy of "Human Events", issued weekly from Washington by Dr. Felix Morley, a former editor of the "Washington Post".'Vera Brittain Human EventsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I lately received from Longman) with much pleasure. I o...William Wordsworth Francis WranghamHuman Laws best supported by the GospelUnknown
1800-1849'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 8...Lord and Lady HollandSamuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 8...John Nicholas Fazackerly Samuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 8...Samuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are some good descriptions - the Mother and Child, Mr Fox a...Sydney Smith Samuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have thought of your lines, and will claim your pardon when I suggest another alteration. The boy and the butterfly, though a beautiful, is a common image; and harebel...George Crabbe Samuel RogersHuman LifeManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: '[Samuel] Rogers read me his Poem when I was in Town about 2 months ago; but I have heard nothing of it since.'Samuel Rogers Samuel RogersHuman Life, A PoemUnknown


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