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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'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to read, but it does give you life's problems, doesn't i...Archibald Joseph CroninHatter's CastlePrint: Book
1900-1945'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to read, but it does give you life's problems, doesn't i...Archibald Joseph CroninThe stars look downPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the whole in these casual ventures I go no further than about 2/6 a book, and most of my reading comes from such editions as Penguin, Pelican, Evergreen, Everyman etc... unknown[cheap editions of books]Print: Book
1900-1945'On the whole my experience of being read to by my parents was not a success. Alice in Wonderland was spoiled by my constant habit of asking questions and my intol...Wilfred Ruprecht Bion Charles Lutwidge DodsonAlice Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which looks to me [italics] very [end italics] clever, & Mr Sy...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Addington SymondsThoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'On these awful dark days there is no work to be done; so this morning after answering notes and paying bills and doing everything I hate doing, I sat down in a very depr...Kate Perugini  Print: Unknown
1700-1799'On this day I began reading Darwin's "Zoonomia", w'ch I had lately proposed in the Book Society.'John Marsh Erasmus DarwinZoonomiaPrint: Book
1700-1799'On this day I finis'd Sullivan's "View of Nature" w'ch I had from the Library Society from w'ch & from the Book Society we were now finish'd with as many books as we co'...John Marsh Sir Richard Joseph SullivanA View of nature, in Letters to a Traveller among ...Print: Book
1850-1899'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.'Alfred Tennyson Honore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1850-1899'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.'Alfred Tennyson Honore de BalzacEugenie GrandetPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Thursday, April 8, I sat a good part of the evening with him, but he was very silent. He said, "Burnet's 'History of his own Times' is very entertaining. The style, i...Samuel Johnson Gilbert BurnetHistory of My Own TimePrint: Book
1700-1799'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sens...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1700-1799'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sens...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon became so interested that I devoted the whole of every ev...John Marsh Thomas BurnettTheory of the EarthPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 30th. I began reading for the 1st time Anson's "Voyage round the World", w'th which I was much amused and interested.'John Marsh Richard WalterAnson's Voyage round the WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 5th of July, I again visited Johnson. He told me he had looked into the poems of a pretty voluminous writer, Mr. (now Dr.) John Ogilvie, one of the Presby...Samuel Johnson John Ogilvie[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero...Samuel Johnson Frederick II King of Prussia[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero...James Boswell Frederick II King of PrussiaMemoirs of the house of Brandenburg. From the earl...Print: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero...James Boswell Frederick II King of Prussia[poems]Print: Book


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