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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 French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact...Clive Staples Lewis George Sand[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact...Clive Staples Lewis François-Marie Arouet VoltaireContes Choisis. Preface de Gustave LansonPrint: Book
1900-1945'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact...Clive Staples Lewis Charles NodierContes FantastiquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'My friend didn't want to shave, although he was no longer clean-shaven, so we had a brief wrangle about washing. Then he read to me out of the newspaper, still in his py... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'My friend had a good deal to do in order to be prepared for his approaching voyage. While he was attending to these matters, I usually remained at home and read in such ...Thomas Carter Torquato TassoJerusalem DeliveredPrint: Book
1900-1945'My friend Marian continued to send the bunch of periodicals that helped to shatter my illusions about the righteousness of the War. Particularly I was impressed by the <...Vero Walter Garratt Cambridge MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My gouty wrist has kept me from thanking you immediately for the volume of poems that you so kindly sent me. [...] What more can I say to give you an idea of the pleasur...Joseph Conrad Louis-Marie-Emile RochéTemps perduPrint: Book
1800-1849'My Grandmother and Miss Haynes dined at our house. Read Reynolds' "Comedy of Notoriety"; I think it is fully equal to the dramatist.'Joseph Hunter Frederick ReynoldsNotoriety: A Comedy [Five Acts in Prose]Print: Book
1800-1849'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I...Thomas Carlyle John PlayfairDissertation Second: Exhibiting a general View of ...Print: Book
1800-1849'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1600-1699'My heart was inclined to love and honour my father, especially when, by reading the history of China, I found that they bore more respect to their parents than any natio...Isaac Archer anonThe Historie of ChinaPrint: Book
1850-1899'My humble apology for not thanking you before for the volume of verses. I share your opinion of Maupassant.The man is a great artist who sees the essential in everythi...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantDes VersPrint: Book
1900-1945'My husband usually buys the penguin books. They're cheap and easy to carry about and afterwards he gives them away to the Forces. He's working very hard and seems to der... unknown[detective fiction]Print: Book
1850-1899'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerable resemblance in that writer to Mr Gilfil and the R...Frank Oliphant Anthony Trollope Print: Book
1850-1899'My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first Englishman to push his way way right through the Him...Francis Younghusband unknownunknownPrint: Book, manuscripts also mentioned
1800-1849'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [...] I was exactly in the situation of the consul, Fla...Thomas Babington Macaulay Livy (Titus Livius) History of Rome Book XIIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'My lamp is burning out, and it is time I was going to my chamber fireside, - there to finished the last 1/2 vol of "Clarissa Harlowe" which I have borrowed from Lambton....Harriet Martineau Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'My Landlady, who was really a Gentlewoman, and he [a Gentleman LP knew from Ireland], and I diverted away the Time with Ombre, Reading, and Pratling, very tolerably'Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'My letter appeared in the Argus this morning & created quite a flutter.' [letter to the editor in response to the article on the Dunedin Gaol, written 10 Feb]John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'My letter in reply to Mr Stout appeared in the Argus.' [composed previous day]John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper


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