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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'One gravestone was erected by Scott .. to the poor woman who served him as a heroine in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and the inscription in its stiff Jedediah Cleishbotham ...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: gravestone
1900-1945'One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? from Hans Anderson to Boris Godonof.' Benjamin Britten Alexander Sergeevich PushkinBoris GodonofPrint: Book
1900-1945'One is driven back to the Gospels and one does not know how to interpret them' [writing of her desire to understand the nature of Catholicism]Antonia White [n/a][Gospels]Print: Book
1900-1945'One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinburne's "Super Flumina Babylonis" - a favourite poem ...Winifred Holtby Algernon Charles SwinburneSuper Flumina BabylonisPrint: Book
1800-1849'One morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking at the door, ... flung a paid letter on the path. Pat...Mrs Smith Dr D of Prospect Villa [letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was a great favourite of mine once. He was a past mas...Winifred Agnes Moore Oliver OnionsThe Open SecretPrint: Book
1850-1899'One number of the "Irishman" has come to my hands: it is published at No. 4 D'Olier Street, and by Fulham; and the editor is Joseph Brennan. This appears to be the true ...John Mitchel Joseph Brennan (ed)IrishmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'One of a Covey'Sarah Good Sue Chestnutwood PerkinsOne of a CoveyPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of my aunts, living some two miles away, I discovered had a copy of Bunyan's immortal dream. The Bible and the pilgrim. Bunyan, for some reason, probably because of ...Thomas Burt John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799'One of my countrymen, Mr. Sandys (whose book I do not doubt you have read, as one of the best of its kind), speaking of these ruins, supposes them to have been the found...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Mr SandysUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the "golden books" of his childhood was J.W. Meinhold's 1847 Gothic historical novel "Sidonia the Sorceress". Wilde's mother, who was an accomplished translator o...Oscar Wilde J.W. MeinholdSidonia the SorceressPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'One of the books I read then for the first time was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres [sic], who had been ...William Henry Hudson Gilbert WhiteThe Natural History and Antiquities of SelbornePrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the books I read then for the first time was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres [sic], who had been ...William Henry Hudson Thomas BrownLectures on the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the books I read then for the first time was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres [sic], who had been ...William Henry Hudson Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Hans Christian AndersenFairy TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Lord FauntleroyPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Charlotte Mary YongeThe Little DukePrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Walter Scott Print: Book
1800-1849'One of the last books I have laid hands on is Lieutenant Burnes's (afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes) "Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus". And, not to speak ...John Mitchel Sir Alexander Burnes[Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus]Print: Book
1850-1899'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordsworth's Grave" pleased him [...] He praised too Mr Rudy...Alfred Tennyson Rudyard Kipling'The English Flag'Unknown


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