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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'Now I am about to read Mrs Roosevelt's autobiography. Apparently she was a very shy child, and everyone said she would never draw attention anywhere!'Vere Hodgson Eleanor RooseveltThe Lady of the White House: An AutobiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (even "Consuelo", which is the best, of the best that ...Charlotte Bronte George SandConsueloPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end italics] bad ones; & the parcel contains this book sent ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][anthology of laudatory sonnets]Print: Book
1900-1945'Now I have absorbed it I send you my thanks for "The Gift of Paul Clermont". It is a very charming and touching performance which one likes more the deeper one gets into...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonThe Gift of Paul ClermontPrint: Book
1900-1945'Now I have had my dinner, or rather Pippin has had most of my dinner, and it is dark and the house is silent, and the book of Elizabethan lyrics which I have been trying...Vita Sackville-West unknown[Elizabethan lyrics]Print: Book
1900-1945'Now I have looked [at the verses] I have to thank you for the kind thought of sending me the little volume and for the pleasure it has given me.' Hence follow eight line...Joseph Conrad Douglas GoldringA Country Boy and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington XenophonSymposiumPrint: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington Francis HutchesonInquiry into the Originals of our Ideas of Beauty ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of ShaftesburyCharacteristicsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeEthic EpistlesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I must go to my ''Moral Ideal''. I like all about Plato and Socrates very much.'Emma Darwin Frances Julia WedgwoodThe Moral Ideal, a Historic StudyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I only want to say that "An Imagined World " charmed my eyes with a charm of its own-distinc[t]ly.'Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettAn Imagined WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [under...Sarah Harriet Burney Frederick ShoberlFrederick the Great, His Court and TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [under...Sarah Harriet Burney W.B. StevensonHistorical and Descriptive Narrative of Twety Year...Print: Book
1800-1849'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [under...Sarah Harriet Burney John BarrowLife of Richard Earl Howe, K.G., Admiral of the Fl...Print: Book
1900-1945'Now I'm reading Festivals of Fire, which I had sent for before I got your letter; it was most charming of you to offer to send it it to me, and I think it remarkable, an...Edith Sitwell Ronald BottrallFestival of FirePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Polly Stamper [n/a]Heartsease LibraryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Heartsease LibraryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Joseph Stamper Mrs Henry [Ellen] WoodThe ChanningsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Joseph Stamper Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book


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