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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
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield George Meredith Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Robert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Gustave Flaubert Print: Book
1700-1799''15:Jan: 1778 Mr Johnson told me today that he had translated Anacreon's Dove, & as they were the first Greek Verses that had struck him when a Boy; so says he they cont...Samuel Johnson AnacreonDovePrint: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel Thomas Elwood[autobiography]Print: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel William Gifford[autobiography]Print: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel Dean Swift[Captain Crichton's autobiography]Print: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel Homer[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899''A grand old book, "The Pilgrim's Progress"! But I've something here you'll like better. "Cranford". Ever heard of it Laura? No, I thought not. Well you've got a treat i...Flora Thompson Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1800-1849''Affecting picture of Constancy and Love' 'Yes! There are real mourners- I have seen /...' [transcription of 'The Church' from l.170 - 'While visions please her, and whi...Mary Groom George CrabbeThe ChurchUnknown
1600-1699''and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1800-1849''Annual Obituray for 1833' [Prose passage on the Death of Sir Walter Scott]' [transcript of text].Deveraux Bowly Annual ObituaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849''extract from the course of time' transcribes from 'true happiness had no localities...' to 'where happiness descending, sat and smiled.' signed 'aunt a.' 'quarry bank j...Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Robert PollokThe course of timeUnknown
1900-1945''Finished "[The] Rose and Ring" (how satisfying) and turned over the "Assemblies of al-Hariri", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and th...Ronald Storrs William Makepeace ThackerayThe Rose and the RingPrint: Book
1900-1945''Finished "[The] Rose and Ring" (how satisfying) and turned over the "Assemblies of al-Hariri", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and th...Ronald Storrs Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-HaririThe Assemblies of al-HarariPrint: Book
1900-1945''Finished "[The] Rose and Ring" (how satisfying) and turned over the "Assemblies of al-Hariri", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and th...Ronald Storrs Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence DivisionA Handbook on Mesopotamia Print: Book


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