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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
 
1800-1849''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.' ...Claire Clairmont William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political ...Print: Book
1800-1849''When I was seven years old [...] I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the door closed behind the other chapel-goers, I looked at ...Harriet Martineau John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'(1) I have started — don't be surprised — "Rob Roy", which I suppose you have read long ago. I really don't know how I came to open it: I was looking for a book in the...Clive Staples Lewis Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'(after reading story): " I see what he (Kennedy) means. The government's all Labour at the moment except Mr. Churchill. What he means to say is that the Premier will be ... Kennedy[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'(By the way Yniol's castle is founded on Caerphilly which Tennyson visited). (See "Geraint and Enid")'Thomas Edward Lawrence Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Geraint and Enid'Unknown
1850-1899'(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanley's memorials of Canterbury?)'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyHistorical Memorials of CanterburyPrint: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White J. Soames[article on Lawrence in 'Life and Letters]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White Florence MacCunnSir Walter Scott's FriendsPrint: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White David Herbert Lawrence[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White David Herbert Lawrence[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White Thomas Carlyle[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'(I am reading from her reply): "I hope I shall remember to go Church and thank God for our victory and our safety. I expect I shall talk of the future and its prospects ... unknownletter about the post-war worldManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'(I am tempted, by the way, to say that 'On the Eve' is the finest novel I have ever read. I must lend it you. Its subtlety and restraint prevent it from ever being rea...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book
1900-1945'(I read it through at a sitting - but that of course is not a good test...) Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-WestPassenger to TeheranPrint: Book
1850-1899'(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be well-educated young lady who knew nothing about Mad...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1700-1799'. . . but I am going to the Library immediately for the Book, -though I assure you I read it all when it first came out,-. . .'Anna Maria Lawes Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1850-1899'. I first heard of Barr?s in an article be Edward Delille in the Fortnightly. Next I read a criticism of this very book in the latest volume issued of Anatole France?s...Arnold Bennett Anatole FranceLa Vie LitterairePrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller, You will see that under the headings of the different countries it...Arnold Bennett unknownunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'. . . & that old Dr. Lawrence has read it ["Evelina"] through 3 Times within this last Month!'Dr Lawrence Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer’s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district that I had blindly inhabited...Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book


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