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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'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indicium. The "Freeman's Journal", one number of which I...John Mitchel [n/a]Freeman's JournalPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as you ought: verse five is surely not [italics]quite melodio...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett Martin'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'.Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical).
1900-1945'Off at 5.15 am. Sea smooth. Read 60 pp. of Surgical Diagnosis.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Off parade there was little enough to do. La Thieuloye was a desolate hole, a mere hamlet with hardly a shop for miles ... Our barn was a fine roomy one and we wer...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Often I sat with her on Sunday afternoons before the fire blazing in an old-fashioned range which shone with black-leaded iron and gleaming steel. There was a home-made ...Tom Stephenson Chorley GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intentions, the kimono was abandoned for such scanty liter...Vera Brittain John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Serial / periodical, magazines
1900-1945'Oh - a propos of that, I've been absolutely engaged by a book about Knole, in which Eddy is described as "author and musician" and I am described as "the wife of the Hon...Vita Sackville-West unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh dear, [...] that's what comes of living alone in the rain and reading Wordsworth.'Vita Sackville-West William WordsworthunknownUnknown
1800-1849'Oh Happiness! Our beings end and aim,...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxAlexander PopeAn Essay on Man, Epistle IVUnknown
1900-1945'Oh I did see that (15). I read it - actually it makes you read it because you have to go through to the end to find out want it's all about. I did read it, but only beca... Information leafletPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'Oh Mr Bosanquet, did you see William Arnold's death in the Times? - but you did not know him, - you remember he wrote Oakfield, - and married somebody within a fortnight...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Oh my vessel's on the say says the shan van voght And I do not know what to say says the shan van voght.'Robert Louis Stevenson Traditional BalladShan Van VoghtUnknown
1800-1849'Oh There are moments in life, keen,blissful, never to be forgotten!!!'Carey/Maingay groupSusan FerrierMarriage. A Novel in Three VolumesPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Oh thou who driest the mourner's tear/...' 'Moore' [epigraph from Psalms not transcribed]Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreOh Thou Who Dry'st the Mourner's TearPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Oh! Had wenever met/...' [transcript of lines 384-387]member of Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreLalla RookhUnknown
1800-1849'Oh! Snatched away in Beauty's bloom...'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronOh! Snatched Away In Beauty's BloomUnknown
1800-1849'Oh! Woman! In our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please...'[6 lines] 'Marmion'Carey/Maingay groupWalter ScottMarmion: A Tale of Flodden FieldPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. The Annual Register has been [italics] carefully [end...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Annual RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Oh, I have strained my eyes trying to read, and had to give it up in the end. I call it dismal, sitting for half an hour or more in a dark, gloomy carriage, so's you can... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read no...Richard LlewellynHow Green was My ValleyPrint: Book


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