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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
1900-1945		 'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show that by this time there was a tremendous demand o...Hannah Mitchell Emmeline PankhurstMy Own StoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas Emmuska Orczy Print: Book
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Emmuska, Baroness OrczyScarlet Pimpernel, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945‘When I clamp-clump-clamp-clumped into the Poetry Bookshop on Thursday, the poetic ladies were not a little surprised. The Readings were from Rabindranath Tagore, rea...Wilfred Owen Emmuska, Baroness OrczyEldoradoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Young Corbishley's letter in the Advertiser was interesting about his march into Palestine. I wrote to Mr Corbishley a week or so back for the address of the ones ...Thomas Wainwright Emmuska, Baroness OrczyThe Tangled SkeinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Each night when I lie down I read a book until lights go out. Am reading the end of one called "By the Gods Beloved" by Baroness Orczy. Last night I slept poorly a...Thomas Wainwright Emmuska, Baroness OrczyBy the Gods BelovedPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, Th...questionaire respondent Emmusska, Baroness OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book
1900-1945'I never feel any emotions now, except the great terrible desire always surging up to get away ... I was thinking a lot today of a book we had at school, Poems of To-d...Reginald Hugh Kiernan English Association Poems of To-day: An AnthologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provincial Lady in America" in evening.'Hilary Spalding Enid BagnoldLottie DundassPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Wilkins and Visconti on the Elgin marbles. Wilkins' assertions that Visconti does not think the relievos on the frieze and the metopes to be the work of Phillias no...Rev. Benjamin Newton Ennio ViscontiA letter from the chevalier Antonio CanovaUnknown
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Enoch Arnold Bennett[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am wholly delighted with your "R.[iceyman] S.[teps]. Wholly. You will give me credit for not having missed any special gems but it is the whole achievement as I went f...Joseph Conrad Enoch Arnold BennettRiceyman StepsPrint: Book
1700-1799"On 21 March 1796, [Wordsworth] told [William] Mathews that D[orothy] W[ordsworth] 'has already gone through half of Davila.'" Dorothy Wordsworth Enrico Caterina DavilaHistoria delle Guerre Civili di Francia ... nella ...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem...V.W. Garratt Epictetus  Print: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Epictetus  Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 6 January 1760, following illness:] 'Now I am well [...] as my mornings are engaged by exercise, I am glad enough in the evening...Catherine Talbot Epictetus OdePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 September 1763:] 'The sickliness of the season has a little affected us here [...] to be sure I was unhappy enough. My mother...Catherine Talbot Epictetus  Print: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Epictetus Discourses of EpictetusPrint: Book
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
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Erasmus Darwin[unknown]Print: Book


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