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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
 
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Tobias Smollett[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Samuel Richardson[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Ann Radcliffe[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Matthew Gregory Lewis[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'On leaving Newstead Abbey ... >From Newstead Sept 9th 1830'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronElegy on NewsteadUnknown
1800-1849'On looking in at the shop window, which was well stocked and elegant, we perceived a notice announcing that a Riblic dinner was to take place at the Swan Hotel, July 1st...John Cole [n/a][notice]Print: Advertisement, Poster, Notice on shop window
1800-1849'On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston].John Cole James [?] EdmestonThe penny magazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'On looking over the Articles of a General Factor in the village, where I was transacting some business, a little book of very tasteful and inviting appearance presented ...John Cole John EdwardsRecollections of FileyPrint: Book
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Marion CrawfordunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Robert Louis StevensonThrawn JanetPrint: Book
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Joseph Sheridan Le FanuGreen TeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Joseph Sheridan Le FanuThe WatcherPrint: Book
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Haunted and the HauntersPrint: Book
1800-1849'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuinely tired of the principal topic as recorded in Anna...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II)Print: Book
1900-1945'On May 5th the U.S. Forces' newspaper, "The Stars and Stripes", quoted a description by British war prisoners of this fourteen-hour attack.'Vera Brittain The Stars and StripesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'On Monday morning Grahame came down to breakfast, read your St John Long;, and insisted on my riding up with him to Grange: we went by Waterbeck and Torbeckhill, over th...William Graham John A. CarlyleOn Medical Quackery and Mr St John Long'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'On Monday the 30th we went in the coach with... Mr Norman, with whom we dined at the Bolt & Tun, where John & I spent the evening & slept, in the course of which evening...John Marsh Matthew LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot, into the authenticity of 'Rowley's Poetry,' as...James Boswell Thomas Chatterton[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]Manuscript: Unknown


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