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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'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire ...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradThe Secret AgentPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire ...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradUnder Western EyesPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire ...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradThe Secret SharerPrint: Book
1700-1799'. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are presumed to have been those of Captn Cooke & Capt. ...Frances Burney  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'. . .he was annoyed with Capes for misquoting his enthusiasm for Joyce in an advertisement for "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"'.Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement
1850-1899'. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'.Alexander (Rex) Ewing John MiltonParadise Lost [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'.. there is a picture in Punch and it is a man beating a great many drums ...'Robert Louis Stevenson PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her fathe...William Ewart Gladstone Julia KavanaghNataliePrint: Book
1850-1899'... after that you will read the Egoist by the same ... I have read... The Egoist six times ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'... all of us were at all times longing for news, and it was rare that we ever got any except for the German version, and that only from the local paper, all the leading...J. P. Lynch Berliner TagblattPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, Postcards
1900-1945'... all of us were at all times longing for news, and it was rare that we ever got any except for the German version, and that only from the local paper, all the leading...J. P. Lynch Leipziger Neueste NachrichtenPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, Postcards
1850-1899'... and I agree with you I could choose no better model than Colvin's admirable Landor.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinLandorPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wide World".'Flora Thompson Maria CharlesworthMinistering ChildrenPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wide World".'Flora Thompson Elizabeth WetherellQueechyPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide, Wide World".'Flora Thompson Elizabeth WetherellThe Wide, Wide WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and then nearly fell asleep over the Fortnightly. Morley is very jolly; so is Marat.'Robert Louis Stevenson Fortnightly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... Anne Thackeray ... discovered ... [Burney's Diary and Letters] in her father's library and felt inspired to become a diarist and novelist ...'Anne Thackeray Frances BurneyThe Diary and LettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he lent me some of his books and told me many straing thi...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
1900-1945'... as we drifted gaily down the sparkling river [Tigris] in perfect autumnal weather, I thought of Browning's [italics] Wanderers [end italics] .... For on my kelek I h...William Collis Spackman Robert Browning"The Wanderers"Print: Book
1900-1945'... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on there free of charge, the library and papers of John ...Cyril Lionel Robert James John Locke Manuscript: Manuscript notebook.


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