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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'...he confessed that he could not understand a word of Gertrude Stein.'Arnold Bennett Gertrude SteinunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him "thin and tedious", says he will try "Splendeurs et ...Arnold Bennett Balzac Print: Book
1900-1945'...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his conceptions had sunk into his subconscious. As he sai...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantBel-AmiPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...he proclaimed himself a disciple of Rousseau. But he can hardly have followed the teaching of "Emile" very closely, since...'Jeans-Jaques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1850-1899'...he read "360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight" . . . and ten days later reported "I have finished Plato and am now labouring in Aristotle's Ethics" . . ....John Buchan PlatounknownPrint: Book, scholarly edition
1900-1945'...he read widely about working-class life in the district.'Arnold Bennett unknown Print: Book
1800-1849'...he wrote a poetical piece in my album in an almost unpremeditated manner; & finding it applicable to my History of Ecton, I have there printed it, entitled 'know thys...John Cole [poetry]Manuscript: Handwritten in Album
1850-1899'...I have been continuing to work at ... John Knox...'Robert Louis Stevenson John KnoxunknownUnknown
1850-1899'...I have been continuing to work at Roman Law...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Roman law]Unknown
1800-1849'...I should have thought that I acknowledged the “[Literary] Remains”, but I suppose I only intended to do it. I am, on the whole, greatly pleased with them. There is ...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor ColeridgePrint: Book
1900-1945'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'iron moulders [n/a]The Racing SpecialistPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'iron moulders [n/a]Football EditionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hole in it, and the wind is blowing through me, and I'm...Virginia Woolf Thomas de QuinceyImpassioned ProsePrint: Book
1700-1799'...immediately afterwards went in the diligence to Margate during which I finished the eccentric performance of "Caleb Williams".'John Marsh William GodwinThings as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1900-1945'...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for authors killed in the war, at which Edmund Gosse read the ...Edmund Gosse LessonPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before... [n/a]Girls' Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before... [n/a]ChipsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before... [n/a]Comic CutsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before... [n/a]Lot o' FunPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before... [n/a]ButterflyPrint: Serial / periodical


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