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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'January 3rd. Cloudy day. Went with Col Pasteurs to look over the French Hospital at the Imperial Hotel. Read the "Decline and Fall" all afternoon and evening.'Martin Wentworth Littlewood Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Down in the village street stood our motor, the ceiling light switched on, brilliantly illuminating the interior, and inside it, oblivious to the crowd that presse...unknown unknown Edward GibbonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and rambles that took up so much of my time, but I would try to overcome my disinclination to serious reading. There we...William Henry Hudson Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'E. [Edward] Grey's book, of which I have already read a considerable portion, has certainly the charm of a genuine feeling expressed in plain language worthy of a great ...Joseph Conrad Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of FallodonRecreationPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lady Lee's Widowhood by Captain Hamley R.A. it is not so good a book as I expected, it has been praised too much; so that I do not think so much of it, as if I had never...Albert Battiscombe Edward HamleyLady Lee's WidowhoodPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...'Thomas Green Edward HookerOf the laws of ecclesiastical politiePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Clarendon's Hist. Rebell. at present with which I am more pleased than I expected, which is saying a good deal'.Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Hyde (1st Earl of Clarendon)The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and...Print: Book
1800-1849'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I ...Jane Baillie Welsh Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon)History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England...Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward IrvingSermons, Lectures and Occasional DiscoursesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward IrvingFor Missionaries after the Apostolical SchoolPrint: Book
1800-1849'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have published it - till after a considerable time. There is...Thomas Carlyle Edward IrvingFor The Oracles Of God, Four OrationsPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Thank your kind friend and host for his little Book, great part of which I read that afternoon: but my Mother got it and carried it down with her, she seemed to so anxio...Thomas Carlyle Edward IRvingOrthodox and Catholic Doctrine of Our Lord's Human...Print: Book
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel...Margaret Oliphant Edward JenkinsGinx's BabyPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Signs of Pain: An excuse for not accepting the Invitation of a Friend to make a Country Excurs...Edward JennerSigns of RainUnknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 23 November 1793, on meeting Edward Jerningham ('the Charming Man') at a gathering at the home of their friend Anne Damer the previous eveni...Horace Walpole Edward JerninghamPrologue to The Siege of BerwickPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:] 'I brought with me Hurd's Dialogues on Education, which have entertained his Grace...Catherine Talbot Edward KimberMaria; The genuine memoirs of an admired lady of r...Print: Book
1900-1945I enclose 2 brief notes about your 2 stories. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that you can produce excellent saleable stories. I have practically no fault t...Arnold Bennett Edward Knoblockstories [unidentified]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846), though lately he had ...Max Beerbohm Edward LearBook of NonsensePrint: Book
1900-1945'When I was a bit older he read to me from Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs and Stories". "Mr Yongy Bongy Bo", "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" and "The Old Man from the Kingdom ...Joseph Conrad Edward LearNonsense Songs and StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don’t remember any child’s book. I don’t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo’s "Travailleurs...Joseph Conrad Edward LearunspecifiedPrint: Book


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