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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'Left at 12.30 and reached Munich at 9, but the journey didn't seem at all long. Read Morelli and "La Cousine Bette". Stopped at the Hotel Belle Vue, supper and so to bed...Gertrude Bell Giovanni Morelli (pseud. Ivan Lermolieff)?Kunstkritische Studien über italienische Ma...Print: Book
1850-1899'Left at 12.30 and reached Munich at 9, but the journey didn't seem at all long. Read Morelli and "La Cousine Bette". Stopped at the Hotel Belle Vue, supper and so to bed...Gertrude Bell Honoré de BalzacLa cousine BettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Left Black's and fell in with Wm Lotherington and Perrot this was about eleven o clock they came home with me, and we drank Brandy and Water and read Falstaff till one o...John Buckley Castieau William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'lent Miss Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields "Hazlewood Hall & Remains" & Aytons "Essays" - Got a look at Gilleads of Spaldings "Alworth Abbey" & I neve[r] saw such a heap of un...John Clare G GilleadeAllworth Abbey; or Christianity TriumphantPrint: Book
1850-1899'Les Femmes Savantes'Sarah Good Moliere [pseud.]Les Femmes SavantesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Let me add, that Hawkesworth's imitations of Johnson are sometimes so happy,that it is extremely difficult to distinguish them, with certainty, from the compositions of ...James Boswell John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Let me describe my reading of the Daily Sketch. I first look and read beneath the front page pictures. The chief news feature on page 3 is read carefully and any other b... Daily sketchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Let me remember, that though I now see, in all the prophets, the most valuable testimony to the truth of the Christian faith, a few years only have elapsed since I consi...Elizabeth Hamilton [books on the prophecies]Print: Book
1850-1899'Let me say that I have read several of your letters published in the Courant, and found them competently done.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Gray Robertson[See below, Additional Comments.]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol...Dylan Thomas [Border Ballads]Print: Book
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol...Dylan Thomas William BlakeSongs of InnocencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol...Dylan Thomas William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol...Dylan Thomas BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me see. (Then, after reading it all through very carefully) - But we know all about this. They sent round leaflets telling me about it. They only thing is they didn'... Gas mask posterPrint: Poster
1800-1849'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for your name.. I have read whole pages of extracts from...Frances Trollope Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Let me thank you for the Swinburne bibliography which I've read with the greatest interest.'Joseph Conrad Thomas James WiseA Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have been good enough to send me.' Joseph Conrad Frederick O'BrienWhite Shadows in the South SeasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have been good enough to send me.' Joseph Conrad Frederick O'BrienMystic Isles of the South SeasPrint: Book
1700-1799'Let the Preface [to Johnson's Dictionary] be attentively perused, in which is given, in a clear, strong, and glowing style, a comprehensive, yet particular view of what ...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonDictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Letter from home May 5th. Roullette -5. Read Slave of Lamp by Merriman.'William Thomas Henry Seton MerrimanThe Slave of the LampPrint: Book


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