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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'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Tobias Smollett[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Fennimore Cooper[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Captain Marryatt[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into volumes
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some old volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in ...Thomas A. Jackson Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes
1850-1899'Later on, a publication called the "Penny Cyclopaedia" became my daily, and for a long time almost my sole study...'Edmund Gosse Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Penny CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on, when Blatchford and his friends, A. M. Thompson, E. F. Fay and Montague Blatchford founded the Socialist weekly "The Clarion", I began to read it and became de...Hannah Mitchell [n/a]The ClarionPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Laura was lucky enough to be given a bound volume of "Good Words" - or was it "Home Words"? - in which the Queen's own journal, "Leaves From Her Majesty's Life in the Hi...Flora Thompson Queen Victoria Leaves from Her Majesty's Life in the HighlandsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Laura's greatest find was a battered old copy of Belzoni's "Travels" propping open somebody's pantry window. When she asked for the loan of it, it was generously given t...Flora Thompson Giovanni Battista BelzoniTravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I am making the most prodigious effort to understand ...Margaret Oliphant Laurence OliphantLand of Gilead, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the pleasant authoress's books; it deals too much in desc...William Charles Macready Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945'Le Havre, though undamaged by war, was stark and gloomy to march through ... "We are quite near Agincourt", I wrote dutifully to my old history master at school, feeling...Wilfred Ruprecht Bion William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1850-1899'Le Livre — i.e. Joseph Knight — Has reviewed my books aright.'Robert Louis Stevenson Knight Joseph[Review in Le Livre]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmitz "History of Greece", it all helps to pass away the...Albert Battiscombe Leonhard SchmitzA History of Greece, from the earliest times to th...Print: Book
1850-1899'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmitz "History of Greece", it all helps to pass away the...Albert Battiscombe George SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Book
1700-1799'Learnt to play those Games which are wrote down in the abbreviations in the "History of Chess".'Joseph Hunter Lambe RobertThe History of ChessPrint: Book
1850-1899'Left at 10.40 Frontier 12.15, lunch Belfort 12.40 where I got "Lourdes" and read it with wild interest all the rest of the way. Tea at Nancy. Reims 7.30.' Gertrude Bell unknown unknownLourdes [...]Print: Book


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