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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'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of strictly abbreviated nursery rhymes, there was the fa...Charles Causley Alfred Lord TennysonPrincess, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of strictly abbreviated nursery rhymes, there was the fa...Charles Causley Walter ScottLochinvarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Ode on Disapointment' 'Come, Disapointment, come! /...' [No author given]Mary Groom Henry Kirke WhiteOn DisapointmentUnknown
1800-1849'Ode to Peace' 'Come; Peace of Mind, delightful quest/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxWilliam CowperOde to PeaceUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Of "Romney's Remorse" [Tennyson] notes: "Edward Fitzgerald said in a letter, 'I read Hayley's Life of Romney the other day: Romney wanted but education and reading to ma...Edward Fitzgerald HayleyLife of RomneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'of all the generations who have praised Madame de Sevigne, and commended her writings, I am certain no one has ever entered more completely into the sentiment of her del...Charlotte Bury Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial t...James Hogg Christian Isobel JohnstoneElizabeth de BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial t...James Hogg R.P. GilliesGerman Stories, selected from the works of Hoffman...Print: Book
1700-1799'Of all the People I ever heard read Verse in my whole Life the best, the most perfect reader is the Bishop of Peterboro'.'John Hinchcliffe [poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, and talk with such fanatical warmth about his 'great...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonThe AlchemistPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of Charlotte Bronte's sojourn at Upperwood House, Rawdon, there is only one slight record apart from her letters. It is contained in a communication to the Westminster G...Charlotte Bronte  Print: Book
1850-1899'Of course I had a shelf for my books..."Rosy's Voyage Around the World" was prime favourite.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Rosy's Voyage Around the WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1...Winifred Agnes Moore D.W. BroganThe Development of Modern FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1...Winifred Agnes Moore Edna FerberA Peculiar TreasurePrint: Book
1900-1945'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Greek poetry, (I have just been reading some translati...Vita Sackville-West unknown[selections from a Greek Anthology]Print: Book
1900-1945'Of course it ["The Patrician"] isn't pure aesthetics (only Flaubert's "Salammbo" among novels is that) but even on that ground alone you have done a very fine thing.' He...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe PatricianPrint: Book
1850-1899'Of course like everybody else I was a reader of the "Singapore Free Press" which was the [underlined] paper of the East as between Rangoon and Shanghai.'Joseph Conrad Singapore Free PressPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMonastery, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottAbbot, ThePrint: Book


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