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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 of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordsworth's Grave" pleased him.'Alfred Tennyson William Watson'Wordsworth's Grave'Unknown
1850-1899'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded Macmillan's to give it general release.'Mary Augusta Ward J. Henry ShorthouseJohn Inglesant
1850-1899'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I...buried myself in it all afternoon, my pleasure enhan...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lewis CarrollThrough the Looking GlassPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of them asked me if I was fond of reading and told me that she herself wrote books and was staying in the neighbourhood hoping to include the dale in her next book. ...Hannah Mitchell Mary Humphrey WardThe History of David GrievePrint: Book
1700-1799'One of your brothers was brought to a liking of reading by my putting some Books which I had told amusing stories out of, in a place where they were difficultly come at ...Alexander Monro [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'One of [Gabriel] Harvey's leisure time interests in London at this time [1580s] is suggested by an interesting broadsheet with his signature dated "1588", some manuscrip...Gabriel Harvey anonBroadsheet listing merchandise (including pharmace...Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet
1900-1945'One other item of news I must not forget to tell you. Aylwin came. I read it (in the trenches, of all incongruous places) and it conquered me. I've nothing at all ...Herbert Edward Read Theodore Watts-DuntonAylwinPrint: Book
1900-1945'One sat or stood waiting, humbly, through hours which scarcely melted, for something to happen, something which would bring this eternity to a conclusion: but, one...Guy Patterson Chapman Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1800-1849'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavouring as I walked over the grass to read a story in ...James Glass Bertram Robert ChambersChambers's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'One Shaw, who seems a modest and a decent man, has written an Erse Grammar, which a very learned Highlander, Macbean, has, at my request, examined and approved.' Mr Macbean William Shaw[Erse Grammar]Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'One smiles at the vision of the gentle Richard Jefferies slaughtering wild cattle in the palaeolithic way, but that feeling and desire which he describes with such...William Henry Hudson Richard JefferiesThe Story of My HeartPrint: Book
1700-1799'One thing, however, yet remains to us & dares to baffle all the wickedness of the Ministry, the tyranny of the Crown, & the various horrours of these ruinous times, ?Man...Frances Burney Rev. George ButtTimoleonManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'One unfortunate who had confounded together the opening paragraphs of the Evidences and the Natural Theology... [wrote as his exam answer] only this commencement of a se...William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'One wet Sunday morning we were all sitting round the table, reading in turn from the New Testament, this being my mother's substitute for Sunday school when she happened...family of Hannah Mitchell [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but one was never able to read more than two or three cons...Gwen Raverat William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'One young man, a collier . . . was seen reading the war news to a group of men just up out of the pit. The newspaper had been passed on by a friend in the incoming shift...Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'Only a short time ago, sitting in the elegant offices of the British Red Cross Society in Grosvenor Crescent, I read in the official "Report by the Joint War Committee o...Vera Brittain Report by the Joint War Committee of the British R...Print: official report
1900-1945'Only recently I discovered its origin in Longfellow's "New England Tragedies", read and re-read during my childhood when Longfellow and Matthew Arnold were the only poet...Vera Brittain Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNew England TragediesPrint: Book
1850-1899'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of you, & am so greedy to read it I can scarcely be gra...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book


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