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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'My diary for October 5th, 1932, recorded the impression made upon me by the writer whose "Modern Utopia" had been a beacon light of my schooldays:'Vera Brittain Herbert George WellsModern UtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English. To get over this handicap, I tried to recollect some French, that admirable language...William Collis Spackman La Vie ParisiennePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English. To get over this handicap, I tried to recollect some French, that admirable language...William Collis Spackman "salty French novels"Print: Book
1850-1899'My discouragement is from many causes: among others the re-reading of my Italian story. Forgive me, Colvin, but I cannot agree with you; it seems green fruit to me, if n...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonWhen the Devil Was Well. Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'My early reading had been confined to the work of the pioneers, and in consequence it never occurred to me that big mountains coud be climbed without guides.[...] I had...Eric Shipton George D. AbrahamSwiss Mountain ClimbsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My Eldest Brother - a warm admirer of it in general. - Delighted with the Portsmouth scene.'James Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1850-1899'My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson. My mother, all agitated in defence of her idol, fetched his poems from the shelf, and with a "Li...Mary Thomas Alfred TennysonLocksley HallPrint: Book
1800-1849'My eldest girl begins to read well and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descriptions of human life'Sophia Scott George CrabbeTales in versePrint: Book
1850-1899'My English history was derived from a small book in small print that dealt with the characters of the kings at some length.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes  Print: Book
1800-1849'My excellent mother had a fair education - at all events she could read and write fairly well - and she was often asked to read and write letters for neighbours who coul...Sarah Tinsley [letters]Manuscript: Letter
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1850-1899		'My father considered Edmund Lushington's translation into Greek of "Crossing the Bar," one of the finest translations he had ever read'. Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Crossing the Bar'Unknown
1700-1799'My Father had made me translate the Life of Cervantes prefixed to Don Quixote from the Spanish by way of exercise when I was learning that Language in December 1756 or J...Hester Lynch Salusbury Life of CervantesPrint: Book
1850-1899'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article (a fine article it was too; […]'Robert Louis Stevenson William Kingdom CliffordReview of 'The Unseen Universe or Physical Specula...Print: Serial / periodical, Review article.
1850-1899'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article: (a fine article it was too);[…].'Robert Louis Stevenson William Kingdom CliffordThe Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a ...Print: Serial / periodical, Review article. Probably read in print after publication, but possibly in another earlier form since RLS was acquainted with its author.
1700-1799'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.'George Austen Francis LathomMidnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incident...Print: Book
1850-1899'My Father possessed a copy of Bailey's "Etymological Dictionary", a book published early in the eighteenth century. Over this I would pore for hours, playing with the wo...Edmund Gosse Bailey (ed.)Etymological DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799'My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.'George Austen William CowperunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'My father said of his friend: "Arthur Hallam could take in the most abstruse ideas with the utmost rapidity and insight [...] On one occasion, I remember, he mastered a ...Arthur Hallam Rene Descartes Print: Book
1800-1849'My father said that he [...] received a good but not a regular classical education. At any rate he became an accurate scholar, the author "thoroughly drummed into" him b...Alfred Tennyson Horace  Print: Book
1850-1899'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in the study that had been made for him, copying for me, ...Francis Wilson  Print: Newspaper


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