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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'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking at the door, and wondered whether it is more than a s...Edward Morgan Forster Cyril Connolly Print: Unknown
1900-1945[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whether eternal justice exists, immutable right & wrong...Edward Morgan Forster J. A. Symonds Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand.
1900-1945[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whether eternal justice exists, immutable right & wrong...Edward Morgan Forster J. A. Symonds Unknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include reflections by Indu Rakshit on 'the representation of the feminine' in contemporary West...Edward Morgan Forster Indu Rakshit Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Paul Valery opening 'L'Histoire est le produit le plus dangereux que la chimie de l'inte...Edward Morgan Forster Paul Valery Print: Book
1800-1849'[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin...Alfred Tennyson Ovid  Print: Book
1800-1849'My father said that he [...] received a good but not a regular classical education. At any rate he became an accurate scholar, the author "thoroughly drummed into" him b...Alfred Tennyson Horace  Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Edmund Burke Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Oliver Goldsmith Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Francois Rabelais Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Sir William Jones Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Joseph Addison Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Daniel Defoe Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Miguel de Cervantes Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)John Bunyan Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)George Louis Leclerc de Buffon Print: Book
1800-1849Arthur Tennyson on his brother Alfred's childhood reading: 'I remember his tremendous excitement when he got hold of Bewick for the first time: how he paced up and dow...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Bewick Print: Book


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