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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
 
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - Rebellion of Ireland'Mary Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of ClarendonHistory of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in IrelandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - greek - finish the Rebellion of Ireland'Mary Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of ClarendonHistory of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in IrelandPrint: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a senten...Bennet Langton Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Print: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a senten...Samuel Johnson Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Print: Book
1700-1799'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire of London - De Foe's Plague is still stronger but th...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward Hyde, 1st earl of ClarendonContinuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarend...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Edward Hyde, First Earl of ClarendonThe History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Eng...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'Mary Godwin Edward Hyde, First Earl of ClarendonThe History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Eng...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.Mary Godwin Edward Hyde, First Earl of ClarendonThe History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Eng...Print: Book
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which w...Samuel Johnson Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Englan...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Trelawney's Adventures of a Younger Brother. It is a book that excites whilst reading, and leaves behind it, many painful feelings. A true radical s...Sarah Harriet Burney Edward John TrelawneyAdventures of a Younger SonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord ...Members of XII Book ClubEdward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord DunsanyFame and the PoetPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwo...Joseph Stamper Edward L. WheelerDeadwood DickPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945
'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute m...Joseph Stamper Edward L. WheelerDeadwood DickPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As to your verses. May I keep them? Of course now you say you will not finish the poem — and it may be true — now.[...] But its charm and music are for me. I have read i...Joseph Conrad Edward Lancelot SandersonAn Episode of Southern SeasManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...
Albert Ruskin Cook Edward Mansfield BrockbankTreatment and Diagnosis of Heart DiseasesPrint: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing's diary entry, April 10 1869: 'Goulburn's Study of the Holy Scriptures'Juliana Horatia Ewing Edward Meyrick GoulburnAn Introduction to the Devotional Study of the Hol...Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
1900-1945'Aunty Etty wrote of E.M. Forster, "His novel is really NOT good; and it's too unpleasant for the girls to read. I very much hope he will turn to something else".'Henrietta Darwin Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898: 'I have just read a paper to the Classical Society on "The Greek Feeling for Nature"; everyone sat upon it very much...Edward Morgan Forster Edward Morgan Forster"The Greek Feeling for Nature"Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, 1 January 1905: 'I was up [at Cambridge] for a fortnight, and read the Society [i.e. the Apostles] a paper, which, if I find it, I will...Edward Morgan ForsterpaperManuscript: Unknown



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