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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
 
1850-1899'Last night a year ago I was reading Mother the "Shadow of Death" at Kirby Thore and today a year ago the shadow fell very near me. I thought much last night of him [the ...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[?The] Shadow of Death Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night at Hotham a woman was beaten to death my her husband. The woman it seems was addicted to drink & the man used to beat her brutally on Saturday night however ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and beginning this letter to you. I had a kitten & my te...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1850-1899'Last night I read the correspondence between Vanessa and Swift — I wonder if any man, beginning with the man to whom those letters were first addressed has ever un...Gertrude Bell Jonathan SwiftunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Last night I sat down to read Cobbett, and very cold it was, but I was left by myself at the fire-side; I never have a great fire, I would rather have a little one and s...Robert Sharp William CobbettThe Political RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Last night I sent a field service card just to let you know that I received the parcel alright on Sunday. It was packed very well. There was a lot of stuff in it, ...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Ludlow Advertiser and Craven Arms GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Last night I sent a field service card just to let you know that I received the parcel alright on Sunday. It was packed very well. There was a lot of stuff in it, ...Anon Anon [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last...Sir Walter Raleigh Robert Louis StevensonThe Black ArrowPrint: Book
1850-1899'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.'John Ruskin [unknown]Expectans expectaviPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last night I went to bed very early and read Mrs Dalloway. It was a very curious sensation: I thought you were in the room - But there was only Pippin, trying to burrow...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfMrs DallowayPrint: Book
1900-1945'last night [Barker] read me Coleridge's "Ode on Dejection" which is very beautiful in parts. It exactly expresses those bad negative states in which one looks and sees n...George Barker Samuel Taylor ColeridgeDejection: An OdePrint: Book
1850-1899'Last night, after reading Walt Whitman a long while for my attempt to write about him, I got the tete-montee, rushed out up to Magnus Simpson, came in, took out Leaves o...Robert Louis Stevenson Walt WhitmanLeaves of GrassPrint: Book
1800-1849'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at times even to soreness at the marvellous Dr John Scott (...Thomas Carlyle John Scott'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The Lon...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Last sixth day a very interesting time at Newgate, numbers there, clergy, some nobility, a sheriff, [underline] many [end underline] ladies, gentlemen and friends. It wa...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Last summer, being in Taunton, at the house of Mr J Smith, brother to my first wife, his son brought in a parcel of those religious tracts which are published by the Rel...James Lackington anon [Religious Tract Society]tractsPrint: Pamphlet, tracts
1900-1945'Last week end was busily employed in reading through De Quincey's "Confessions" as a whole, for the first time, from which I derived great satisfaction. How much of ...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last week I got a copy of that little book of yours on Icelandic Sagas, which I found very interesting, and as a result I have now bought a translation of the "Laxdael...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]Laxdaela SagaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last week I got out of the library the works of our present poet laureate, Bridges, who did not impress me a bit.'Clive Staples Lewis Robert Bridges[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Last week I perused von Buch's "travels in Norway & Lapland". Much of his attention is devoted to Mineralogy, of which I am very ignorant, and his movements are sometime...Thomas Carlyle Christian Leopold, Baron von BuchReise durch Norwegen und LapplandPrint: Book


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