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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'Restful week-end. Read a biography of Dick Sheppard. I never heard him preach. Astounded he was so unhappy at school.'Vere Hodgson Charles MatthewsDick Sheppard: Man of PeacePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'Mary Godwin Charles MaturinMilesian Chief, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Mary Shelley Charles MaturinWomen, ou Pour et ContrePrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde praised "Melmoth" [the Wanderer] as a pioneering work of European Gothic fiction. He admitted, however, that it was stylistically "imperfect" and laughed at its ab...Oscar Wilde Charles MaturinMelmoth the WandererPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read over the "History of Chivalry", it really is true to the title page as nothing but Chivalry can befound in it. I cannot say that it is very amusing or instru...Robert Sharp Charles MillsThe History of Chivalry; or Knighthood and Its TimPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have begun to read Hill's history of Chivalry, the author seems to be delighted with his subject, and I have no doubt but he treats it in a proper manner; - This is a ...Robert Sharp Charles MillsThe History of Chivalry; or Knighthood and Its Tim...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christ...George Eliot [pseud.] Charles MontalambertThe Monks of the WestPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Buonaparte's Memorial to Sir Hudson Lowe, a poor performance and utterly unworthy his fallen greatness'.Benjamin Newton Charles MontholonBonaparte's memorial in a letterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943 Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.
[...]
5. Kenneth Ni...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Charles Morgan[unspecified text]Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:] 'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with pleasure, and though the objection you made is just, it ...Catherine Talbot Charles MorrellThe Tales of the GeniiPrint: Book
1800-1849'You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plutarch; and moreover a long-headed, clever hero, who t...Sydney Smith Charles NapierAn account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedr...Print: Book
1900-1945'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact...Clive Staples Lewis Charles NodierContes FantastiquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have spent the day mostly in reading Wellington's Army, by Oman, one of the most interesting books I have read. I am awfully bucked with it. The day has passed u...Robert Dunlop Smith Charles OmanWellington's Army, 1809-1814Print: Book
1900-1945'No change, every bit as bad as yesterday, nothing but rain and mist ... I wrote the rest of the morning in my tent, and in the afternoon continued reading Wellingt...Robert Dunlop Smith Charles OmanWellington's Army, 1809-1814Print: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Lik...Jack Lawson Charles Reade Print: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book
1850-1899'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together fr...Algernon Swinburne Charles Reade[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class girlfriend, asked her how Margaret had become pregnant...John Edmonds Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Charles ReadeCloister and the Hearth, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book


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