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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'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby...John Ridges Alfred, Lord Tennyson'St Agnes' Eve'Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Stoddart read prayers & preached to the prisoners.'Mr Stoddart prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Stoddart read prayers and delivered an address to the prisoners, in my estimation I would be better to have no clergyman at all than to provide such as this gentleman...Mr Stoddart prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Stoddart read prayers and delivered an address to the Protestant prisoners'Mr Stoddart prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Swan's note was extremely good.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Swan'Lighthouses' Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Mr Sykes will not take any more of Cobbett's registers for the abuse heaped on Mr Canning and for the observations made on Mr Brougham's speech at Liverpool...'Richard Sykes William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Mr T.[aaffe] in the evening - read his notes to Dante'Mary Shelley John TaaffeComment on the Divine Comedy of Dante AlighieriManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr W. H. Smith then read a paper on the life of John Ruskin'.William Henry Smith William Henry Smith[Paper on Ruskin]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr Wilson had no more patience than we had with Little Nell and the atrocious Trotty Veck. He shovelled the sentiment and the trushery behind him, and started straight o...Walter Wilson Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Wilson introduced us to another author - Victor Hugo... in 1925, "Les Miserables" gripped us even more than "Pickwick". Mr Wilson must have abridged it ruthlessly, bu...Walter Wilson Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Wishaw' to Mary Berry, 14 July 1819: 'On returning from the country I find your kind and acceptable present [Berry's Life of Lady Russell] [...] I have read over the ...Mr Wishaw Mary BerryLife of Lady RussellPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr [Horatio] Brown showed us all sorts of interesting Stevenson things yesterday — particularly a little paper book of poems, with all the Stevenson grace about th...Gertrude Bell Robert Louis Stevenson?Moral EmblemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr [italics] Woolaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, shews us powerfully, how much a Lye offends the Creator; as I am tax'd with numerous Quotations, wh...Laetitia Pilkington William WoolastonReligion of Nature Delineated, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr [James Chesterton] Bradley always found great pleasure in recalling the fact that he was the prototype of Mr Sweeting [in Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley], although ...James Chesterton Bradley and fellow curatesunknown unknown[Patristic writings]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very strange performance, the authour having mixed in it...James Boswell William MarshallMinutes of AgriculturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. B. B. Popplewell rose to propose “the health of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel and the Conservative members of the House of Commons,” and after eulogizing the pu...Benjamin Briggs Popplewell Robert Story'I was bred in a cot' from Songs and Lyrical PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Burke's "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America", being mentioned, Johnson censured the composition much, and he ridiculed the definition of a ...Samuel Johnson Edmund BurkeLetter To The Sheriffs Of Bristol Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr. Eliot, with whom Dr. Walter Harte had travelled, talked to us of his "History of Gustavus Adolphus", which he said was a very good book in the German translation.' Mr Eliot Walter HarteHistory of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, king of ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have looked into it." "What (said Elphinston), have you n...James Elphinstone [unknown][a recently published book]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have looked into it." "What (said Elphinston), have you n...Samuel Johnson [unknown][a recently published book]Print: Book


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