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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
 
1700-1799Transcribed (not entirely accurately) in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes from a later edition of the grammar by Edward Leedes, headmaster of King Edwar...Edward Pordage Edward LeedesEnglish Examples. To be Turned into LatinPrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. ...Edward Little Edward Little[paper on Tolstoy]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite...anon Edward Lloyd[various titles published by Lloyd]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison libra...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Edward Lytton[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Well, here I am, and a soldier … to go to Northampton on Monday for the First Reserve … Tonight I have been reading the Georgian Poetry Book, and it is this that mad...Ivor Bertie Gurney Edward MarshGeorgian PoetryPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I have been in topsy turveydom since I last saw you and have not been able to write. Even now it is in the extremest difficulties that I’m writing this. I wanted to ...Isaac Rosenberg Edward MarshGeorgian Poetry 1916-1917Print: Book
1900-1945'Off at 5.15 am. Sea smooth. Read 60 pp. of Surgical Diagnosis.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Beira all day — am getting on with Surgical Diagnosis, & Tropical Diseases by Stitt.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Finished Surgical Diagnosis by Martin 750 pp.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
Surgical Diagnosis – Martin
Tropical Diseases – Stitt
Abdominal Injuries – Morison & R.
Household ...		Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: Book
1700-1799'I heard the greatest part of the Gamester read by Mr Garrick, before it was brought upon the stage. On the whole, I much liked it. I thought it a very affecting performa...David Garrick Edward MooreThe GamesterUnknown
1800-1849'O Thou for whom my lyre Istring/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxEdward MooreThe Lover and the FriendUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'It made me think of a poem that our german professor used to read us in class. Ja, das war zum letzenmal/ Das, wir beide, arm in arme/ unter einem Schirm gebogen. --/ A...Katherine Mansfield Edward MorikeErinerung - an C.N.Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Edward Moxon, 25 November 1844: 'I am grateful to you for the gift you have sent me [...] I have glanced through a good many of the sonnets alread...Elizabeth Barrett Edward MoxonSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lines on the Death of a Beloved Wife' 'How without rule are the decrees of God/... Thinks I To Myself'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxEdward NaresThinks-I-To-Myself: A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-ComicUnknown
1800-1849'Sir I very much regret that your note has so long remained unanswered. It was put aside among some answered letters, and so escaped me. I recollect very shortly after I...Charles Dickens Edward OliverunknownManuscript: Sheet, UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usually sat in the Oriental, or, to use a less pompous ...Thomas Carter Edward ParkinsonTravels in North AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Pearson's "Remarks on the Theory of Morals"...'Thomas Green Edward PearsonRemarks on the Theory of MoralsPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edward Reynolds 'When our Emmanuell from his Throne came down'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Edward ReynoldsWhen our Emmanuell from his Throne came downPrint: Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Edward Reynolds, 'A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Edward ReynoldsA Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the So...Print: Book


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