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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
 
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...James Boswell Thomas GrayThe Bard: A Pindaric OdePrint: 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...James Boswell 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...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas Gray[Odes]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Next morning at breakfast, [10th June 1784] he pointed out a passage in Savage's "Wanderer", saying, "These are fine verses". "If (said he) I had written with hostility ...Samuel Johnson Richard SavageWanderer, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Next morning. My Ruskin is better than ever. I will have him bound in Oxford, or will bind him myself. It gives a most masterly exposition of the meaning and method ...Thomas Edward Lawrence John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Anon The Arabian NightsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Edgar Allan Poe Print: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Edward George Earl Bulwer LyttonThe Coming RacePrint: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
1900-1945'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando] de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject that only you can do justice to-with your wonderful...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamHernando de Soto: together with an account of one ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Next to the Bible in time, and soon superseding it in practice were four volumes of Cassell's Illustrated History of England, which my father got bound up from a set of ...Thomas A. Jackson [n/a]Cassells Illustrated History of EnglandPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes
1500-1599'Next to [John] Balgrave's modest prefatory poem [in "The Mathematical Jewel" (1585)] "The Authour in his own defence", [Gabriel] Harvey comments: "An Youth, & no Univers...Gabriel Harvey John BlagraveThe Mathematical Jewel, Shewing the making, and mo...Print: Book
1700-1799'Next year my parents took me home during the winter quarter, and put me to school with a lad named Ker, who was teaching the children of a neighbouring farmer. Here I ad...James Hogg BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'.Sydney Smith Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Nietzsche is one of the very few philosophers who remain poets in the midst of their philosophising; perhaps he is the only one. His words are often as near to actual li...William Soutar Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild go...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert FergussonPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild go...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BurnsunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild go...Robert Louis Stevenson Allan RamsayThe Gentle Shepherd Print: Book, Unknown


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