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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'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield John Keats[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield obtained his first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" on the Conway and was soon enraptured by the possibility that such South Sea adventures m...John Masefield Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose disciple he became, and whom he shortly met'John Masefield Wiliam Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield anonDick Whittington and his CatPrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Dying SwanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEvangelinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to the Mechanics where we read for a short time.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to the Mechanics where we read for a short time.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Matheson is reading ''Macauley's Life'' to me, and his letters are delightful.'Emma Darwin George Otto TrevelyanThe Life and Letters of Lord MacauleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Matthew Arnold told G. L. Craik that when, as a youth, he first read "Timbuctoo" he prophesied the greatness of Tennyson.'Matthew Arnold Alfred TennysonTimbuctooPrint: Book
1850-1899'Matthew Arnold wrote from Wilton, the Pembrokes' house, a week before his death (which occurred on April 15), that he found all the guests there reading or intending to ...guests at WiltonMary Augusta WardRobert ElsmerePrint: Book
1850-1899'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Matthew)Print: Book
1850-1899'Maud began [her diary] right after she had read a book called "A Bad Boy's Diry" [sic], a story a teacher had left behind at the house after boarding there for a year. I...Lucy Maud Montgomery A Bad Boy's DiryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Vir...Elizabeth Bowen Marcel Proust[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Vir...Elizabeth Bowen Guy de Maupassant'Yvette' [and other short stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'May (Stowe Hill)'Sarah Good Rolf BoldrewoodThe Squatter's DreamPrint: Book
1850-1899'May - Autobiography'Sarah Good Frances Hodgson-BurnettThe One I Knew the Best of AllPrint: Book
1600-1699'May 11. I read the lives of some moderne divines, and I was ashamed to find how short I came of such examples for zeale, and diligence. In Mr Stockton's life, whom I kne...Isaac Archer Samuel ClarkeThe Lives of Sundry Eminent PersonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster] knowing my father's love of science had asked maste...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerPrint: Book


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