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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 own darling, I write to you in the middle of reading "Orlando", in such a turmoil of excitement and confusion that I scarcely know where (or who!) I am. It came this...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfOrlandoPrint: Book
1800-1849'My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under any weight that I can tkae from it... This letter is, ...Thomas Carlyle Jane Baillie WelshLetter dated 29th JanuaryManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'My own treasures are nearly all with me still, showing only the honourable marks of age and continual reading...'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Little GypsyPrint: Book
1800-1849'My own, best, dearest Love I do believe I should have gone out of my senses, if your letter had been a day longer of coming. As it was they were obilged to put leeches...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas CarlyleLetter dated 29th July 1825Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when sales dwindled to vanishing point... I was attracted ...anon Charles Dickens[works]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My personal opinion of margarine has quite changed owing to the arrival of this questionnaire. My mother opened it by mistake, but finding it was not of a private nature... questionnaire about margarinePrint: Broadsheet, Questionnaire / survey sheet
1850-1899'My poet writes good stuff; it is slack still and unequal, but I think some of it capital.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyunknownUnknown
1800-1849'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled...Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown (trad)Jack The Giant KillerPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled...Jane Baillie Welsh Mary Martha SherwoodThe Wishing CapPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled...Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown Blue BeardPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'My reader is a great success. It is ''Cranford'', and ''D-n Dr Johnson'' comes in. She stopped dead and said ''a slang expression''. I can't perceive she is ever amused....Emma Darwin Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1900-1945'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at Fritham and elsewhere in speaking of a certain great...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1850-1899'My reviewing has been mixing me up with literary folk lately. One ?George Paston? (niece of John Addington Symonds) whose 3 books I have consistently belauded wants to ...Arnold Bennett George PastonA Modern Amazon, A Bread and Butter Miss, A Study ...Print: Book
1700-1799'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.'Susanna Arabella Thrale Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.'Susanna Arabella Thrale Vincent de VoitureLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'My sisters and I had a volume of the sermons given by an Oxford friend of our brother William; but it was with the caution that there were two sermons which it was bette...Elizabeth M. Sewell and her sisters [unknown][Oxford Movement sermons]Print: Book
1800-1849'My sisters Catherine, Rachel, Chenda and myself had a very remarkable morning, I felt most easy to stay at home from Meeting to be with my beloved sick sister, and had a...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.' Arnold Bennett Alexandre DumasunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'My spirit is however brought low before the Lord, on behalf of some most dear - ah, the unutterable conflict that giving way to evil produces in ourselves and others. An...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fix...Katherine Mansfield Lloyd George Print: Newspaper


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