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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'No change, every bit as bad as yesterday, nothing but rain and mist ... I wrote the rest of the morning in my tent, and in the afternoon continued reading Wellingt...Robert Dunlop Smith Charles OmanWellington's Army, 1809-1814Print: Book
1900-1945'No change, every bit as bad as yesterday, nothing but rain and mist ... I wrote the rest of the morning in my tent, and in the afternoon continued reading Wellingt...Robert Dunlop Smith Arthur Quiller-CouchOxford Book of English VersePrint: Book
1800-1849'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of every opportunity that has offered itself of religious ...Amelia Opie ScripturesPrint: Book
1850-1899'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she opines that I shall find it a very great treat indeed....Maria Heny Thomas Buckle History of Civilization in EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she opines that I shall find it a very great treat indeed....Harriet Martineau Oliver Wendell HolmesElsie VennerPrint: Book
1900-1945'No end of thanks for the little vol: so charming inside and outside--in its slender body containing a gently melodious soul. I see quite a new aspect of you in these few...Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsunidentifiedPrint: Book
1800-1849'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles' [letter to Claire Clairmont]Mary Shelley [n/a]TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp...Wilfred Pickles John Keats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp...Wilfred Pickles Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp...Wilfred Pickles George Bernard Shaw[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp...Wilfred Pickles John Galsworthy[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'No parcel aft. French. Supposed to play Rugger ... Ev bridge. Won. Read Reins of Chance by C Ranger Gull.'William Thomas Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger GullThe Reins of ChancePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'No private reading except a little in "Eusebia de Praeparatio Evangelica"'. John Jones EusebiusDe Praeparatio EvangelicaPrint: Book
1850-1899'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.'Robert Louis Stevenson Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or WanderjahrePrint: Book
1700-1799'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar [end italics], and [italics] Brutus [end italics] f...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][books on Roman History]Print: Book, Pamphlet
1700-1799'No work of fiction could be read unless approved by their mother* ... [footnote] * An exception was made in the case of Fanny Burney's third novel, Camilla. "I've got le...Princess Elizabeth Fanny BurneyCamillaPrint: Book
1850-1899'No! I have not read nothing! - not even a review of Idylls of the King - only heard Mrs Norton's account of Tennyson's reading it'.Alfred, Lord Tennyson [unknown][review of his own 'Idylls of the King']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'No; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married.'Jane Austen George Crabbepreface to The BoroughPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nobody could possibly be better fitted out in every respect for collecting than I am: many cooks have not spoiled the broth this time; Mr Brownes little hints about micr...Charles Darwin La Dictionnaire ClassiquePrint: Book
1700-1799'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breere, and the other in his May of the Fox and the Kid a...Hester Lynch Thrale Edmund SpenserShepheardes Calendar, ThePrint: Book


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