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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'Nearly finished the life of Tolstoy - very difficult person. Glad he was no relation of mine. Saints seem as difficult as geniuses . . . Tolstoy was both, and I don'...Vere Hodgson Emile DillonCount Leo Tolstoy: A New PortraitPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.'Caroline Clive Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLady GeraldinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Nearly the whole time from breakfast till Mr Legge's coming down, employed in reading Cobbett. More thoroughly wicked and mischievous than almost any that has appeared y...William Windham William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'Mr Neild [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Neild walked home with me & we had a pleasant chat on various subjects. I showed him "Suffolk's" Bible & told him a little about the character of the individual, he seem...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'neither had read a romance since, in childhood, they had dipped into the "Waverley Novels" as they appeared in succession.'Philip and Emily GosseSir Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Never thought much about it, took it for granted. One thing it's done is make people's nerves on edge all the time, wars and all that, get sick of it. . . . Pictures you... [unknown][newspaper?]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Never was there such a representative of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.'Walter Scott William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamUnknown
1900-1945'Nevertheless I've read the book ["A Man of Devon"] twice'. Hence follows a page of constructive criticism. Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA Man of DevonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nevertheless, there is nothing that I should prize more than a nice edition of Kipling, whose poems I am just beginning to read and to wonder why I never read them be...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and the first violinist of a visiting orchestra. He ... e...Neville Cardus Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'New Years Day - fourteen children to dine with us - had meant to read them my concentrated journal of the year; but courage failed me ... Since, I have read my journal t...Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth FryJournalManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Newman Flower, born in 1879, was running from the classroom at Weymouth College to his housemaster's in a snowstorm when someone ... shouted: '"Tennyson's dead!" And in...school class at Weymouth CollegeAlfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1900-1945'News from the front there was none. No one knew where the front was. The "Evening Paper," a single sheet, printed in large characters on one side only, confined itself t...Ian Vivian Hay Evening Paper, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'News paper odditys [quotes article on salt mine in Poland] "Stamford Mercury"'John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'News paper wonders - "There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great age of 105 years - she has lately cut new teeth to ...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laughing at' [quotes 2 stories from the 'Stamford Mercur...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company; b...Samuel Johnson Thomas GrayElegy Written in a Country ChurchyardPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company; b...Samuel Johnson Thomas GrayThe Bard: A Pindaric OdePrint: Unknown


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