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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'Thank goodness I have nearly finished [Stanley's] ''Darkest Africa'' and it must be the most tiresome book in the world, so confused and diffuse, with immense long conve...Emma Darwin Henry Morton StanleyIn Darkest Africa: Or the Quest, Rescue, and Retre...Print: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek William BoothIn Darkest England and the Way OutPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sept. Trans. from Norwegian by Eliz. Carmichael. A very strange book. I don't care for it at all.'Sarah Good Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonIn God's WayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Kipling's "Diversities", Steevans "India", Wells "War [of the Worlds]" "Dynamiter" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'Ronald Storrs George Warrington SteevensIn IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
    A. G Joselin in the chair.

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5. F. E. Pollard then undertook...		Francis E. Pollard William WatsonIn Laleham ChurchyardUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829: 'I have actually & absolutely finished the seven hundred & thirty one lines of Gregory Nazianzen's poem In laudem v...Elizabeth Barrett Gregory NazianzenIn laudem virginitatisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Newman Flower, born in 1879, was running from the classroom at Weymouth College to his housemaster's in a snowstorm when someone ... shouted: '"Tennyson's dead!" And in...school class at Weymouth CollegeAlfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1900-1945'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'.William John Brown Alfred, Lord TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAlfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850: 'As to "In Memoriam," I have seen it, I have read it, .. dear Mr [John] Kenyon had the goodness t...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 16-19 December 1850, on 18 December: 'We have been reading together Tennyson's "In Memoriam" in the ev...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these buried bones') from Tennyson, In Memoriam (1870 edit...Edward Morgan Forster Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Hallam to Alfred Tennyson, on reading In Memoriam: 'I know not how to express what I have felt [...] I do not speak as another would to praise and admire: few of...Henry Hallam Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyl, 3 March 1862: 'Your letter a little dismayed me, for, as you in the prior one had bound me by no promise of secrecy, I, in talkin...Queen Victoria Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's funeral: 'Many were seen reading "In Memoriam" while waiting before the service.'Mourners at funeral of Alfred TennysonAlfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson: 'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) that the hope of man lies in the historic realizatio...Brooke Foss Westcott Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson: 'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) that the hope of man lies in the historic realizatio...Brooke Foss Westcott Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Brimley's ''Essay on Tennyson'', and I really think it will set me on reading some of his poems.' [But, she added later] 'My reading of Tennyson is come to ...Emma Darwin Alfred, Lord TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850: 'I have seen extracts in the Examiner from Tennyson's "In Memoriam," which seemed to me exquisitel...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical


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