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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'... reading "Sons and Lovers", [W. H. Hudson] judged it "a very good book indeed except in that portion where he relapses into the old sty -- the neck-sucking and wall...William Henry Hudson D. H. LawrenceSons and LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945'... remember that nearly all your reading is confined to about 150 years of one particular country.... And so, if you suddenly go back to an Anglo-Saxon gleeman's lay,...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]BeowulfPrint: Book
1850-1899'... some verses which I wrote turn out, on inspection, to be not quite equal to "Kubla Khan".'Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel Taylor ColeridgeKubla KhanPrint: Book
1850-1899'... such cursed nonsense as the last thing in Good Words. Oh! Alfred Tennyson! Alfred Tennyson, oh!'Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred, Lord Tennyson'1865-1866'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'... that cold, dismal golf links that always reminds me of the moorland in "Locksley Hall". Talking about "Locksley Hall", I have discovered a tattered copy of Tenny...Clive Staples Lewis Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam and other poemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'... the Alliance of Honour existed to support my trend of thought and from my early teens to claim me as an ardent worker and propagandist for the cause of personal puri...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknown[publications of the Alliance of Honour]Print: Book, Pamphlet
1850-1899'... the work has come, and a very portly tome it is; and I have already read Lodge and Webster...'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse Print: Book
1800-1849'... therefore was my satisfaction great to receive (as I did this morning) a copy of your works with your own friendly autograph. I need not say how much I feel the hono...Alfred Tennyson Ferdinand FreiligrathEnglische Gedichte als Neurer ZeitPrint: Book
1900-1945'... Vera Brittain, attending her aunt's school in Surrey shortly before the First World War, glossed her [the aunt's] practice of allowing them to read extracts [ie cutt...Female pupils at Surrey school anonThe Times (extracts)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'... we got no news at Göttingen except from scraps of English papers which came in parcels, the Göttingen paper was one of the worst in Germany, and we did not take it ...J. P. Lynch unknown unknown[scraps of English newspapers]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, Postcards
1850-1899'... we have seen review in St James's Gazette, March 17 and Pall Mall March 18 — both good.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Reviews in Pall Mall Gazette and St James's Gazet...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'... we went into the Reading Rooms, and the "Daily Telegraph" Correspondent read us the article he had written on our trek across the mountains, which is to appear in th...Dorothy Minnie Newhall unknown unknown[article in the "Daily Telegraph" on Serbian missi...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'... when evening came I sought the isolation of a disused hut at the bottom of a garden and revelled in poetic creations by candlelight as a solace to my distraught mind...Vero Walter Garratt Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.)Golden Treasury, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'... your remarks on Great Expectations are very good. We have both re-read it this winter .. The object being a play ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'... ["A Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect"], by [Thomas] Wilkinson, in his own hand, was pasted into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ...Wordsworth FamilyThomas WilkinsonLamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the...Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'... [Dorothea Beale] learnt to love Shakespeare through her father reading it aloud ...'Miles Beale William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... 'Dorothea Beale and mother historyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... 'Dorothea Beale and mother general literaturePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'... [J. M.] Barrie's secretary wrote, "One of his great solaces was Anthony Trollope, whom, like many others, he rediscovered after the First World War."'James Matthew Barrie Anthony TrollopeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's "The ...Margaret Cole J. A. HobsonThe Science of WealthPrint: Book


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