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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'Pardon my frankness. This is most distinctly an idea for a play. And you have put everything into it except the play. [The Sane Star]... Play returned herewith. A.B.'Arnold Bennett E.V. LucasThe Sane StarManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Parish officers are modern savages as the following fact will testifye - Crowland Abbey "Certain surveyors have lately dug up several foundation stones of the Abby [...]...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Part III is 'the reconciliation', in Spencer's phrase, - a mean term between I and II, a minimistic retrospect on both.'Robert Louis Stevenson Herbert SpencerA System of Synthetic PhilosophyPrint: Book
1600-1699'Parthenissa is now my company[,] my Brother sent it downe and I have almost read it, tis hansome Language you would know it to bee writt by a person of good Quality thou...Dorothy Osborne Roger BoyleParthenissaPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'parts are eloquent & true, some too partial & self-satisfied, underrating the evil more than overrating the good, a little of it we should formerly at Christ Church have...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas James'College Life'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Paxton has a bet of a dinner that war will be over by 1st July. So Bridge. Read Under Two Flags by Ouida.' William Thomas Maria Louise RamUnder Two FlagsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Paymaster went ashore to inquire about coals &, he returned at 8 PM telling us to steam alongside a brig to morrow morning: he brought out some newspapers - I read in on...Albert Battiscombe [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'PBS reads Diogenes Laertius.'Perct Bysshe Shelley Diogenes LaertiusunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to follow [...] [literature] has committed itself too dee...Edward Morgan Forster E. M. Forstershort storiesUnknown
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter Honoré de Balzac[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter Stendhal[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter Gustave Flaubert[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter Anatole France[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter [Italian poets][poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'Peeped in at the Mechanics and read a book for half an hour.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pendennis'Sarah Good William ThackerayThe History of PendennisPrint: Book
1850-1899'People say, the Times leading the van, that the news is quite as good as can be expected &c &c &c.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Percy is reading the [underline] Antigone [end underlining]' [letter to Maria Gisborne]Percy Shelley SophoclesAntigonePrint: Book
1900-1945'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ...Percy Wall Herbert George Wells Print: Book


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