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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'The sergeant was a small chap, and all night was so tireless that I thought of Alan Breck Stewart in Kidnapped.'Reginald Hugh Kiernan Robert Louis StevensonKidnappedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became ver...James Coffey Killarney EchoPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'And while we are on the subject of the war, I am sure you have noticed the excellent blank verse poem in this week's "Punch" entitled "Killed in Action". I read it wit...Clive Staples Lewis Rudolph Chambers LehmannKilled in ActionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Didn't do much work as was reading "The Killer and the Slain", which I don't like much as it's very sordid and morbid.'Hilary Spalding Hugh WalpoleKiller and the Slain, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Rudyard Kipling, 30 October 1901: 'I can't lay down "Kim" without wanting much to write to you [...] I overflow, I beg you to believe, with "Kim", and I re...Henry James Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1900-1945'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young...Lawrence Durrell Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Kim". Heard from S by last post.'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walked Marshy Meadows by myself. Read "Kim".'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you seen Gwatkin? His novel is not bad and I can see now why it had that sale. Shall I send it to you or has he given you a copy?' Joseph Conrad John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin]KimonoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every child was given a little volume called King Edward's Realm, bound in imitation crimson leather, which I found slow going. The fate of books is strange. Perha...Edmund Blunden Charles DaweKing Edward's Realm: Story of the Making of the Em...Print: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'King James came in progres to the house of Sr Pope Knight, when his Lady was lately delivered of a daught...Elizabeth Lyttelton Richard CorbettKing James came in progres to the house of Sr Pope...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 29 May 1800: 'In the morning worked in the garden a little, read King John.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read King John - & Livy'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "King John" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. "Midsummer Night's Dream" I like least of any in Shakespeare...John Ruskin William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished the Lady of the Lake. – I read all the notes. I have also read these plays of Shakespeare. John. Richard 2d. Henry 4th & I am now reading Henr...William Henry Fox Talbot William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1850-1899'There is a pencil note in his copy of "Paradise Lost": "Had to write 500 lines of this for being caught reading "King Lear" in class."'Tom Thomas William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances."Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book


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