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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'['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as every one in England had, the "Cleopatra chapter", and...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Nathaniel HawthorneMarble Faun, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am loving your book [The March of Literature]: in fact I'm enjoying it even more than Great Trade Route. I do hope it's doing as well as it deserves'.Esther Julia Ford Ford Madox FordMarch of Literature, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'March to Moscow, Southey', beginning, 'Buonaparte he would set out/ For a summer excursion to ...Robert SoutheyMarch to MoscowUnknown
1850-1899'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flow...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi.Edward Morgan Forster Herman MelvilleMardiPrint: Book
1600-1699'at the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'we returned and I settled to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors,...Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper and to Selden "Mare Clausum" and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so I home, and sat late up, reading of Mr Selden. And so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'So after my business was done and read something in Mr Selden, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so left the table and went up to read in Mr Selden till church time;'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'So we parted; and I home and to Mr Selden and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldonMare Clausum
1600-1699'Up betimes and to my office, where I first ruled with red Inke my English "Mare clausum"; which, with the new Orthodox title, makes it now very handsome.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors,...Samuel Pepys Hugo GrotiusMare LiberumPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.

[...] ...		Margaret Dilks Margaret DilksMargaret Dilks, Minutes of the meeting of the XII ...Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

[...]

4. The subject of the evening was John Ruskin, ...		Bruce Dilks Margaret DilksMargaret Dilks, Minutes of the meeting of the XII ...Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook
1900-1945'I'm sorry I kept the MS so long.[...] However I've read it more than once; the difficulty was to say something useful.[...] I do not want to deface the pages tho' I have...Joseph Conrad Elizabeth Martindale Margaret HeverManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Barrie?s 'Margaret Ogilvy', though a trifle loose in the mere writing, is a divine thing, my boy?sort of book that immediately you have finished it you begin again, No ...Arnold Bennett J.M. BarrieMargaret Ogilvy/by her sonPrint: Book


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