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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'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Robert Browning Print: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury (ed.)Print: Book
1900-1945'Phyliis's novel, "Inheritance", had become the fiction-star of that spring.'Vera Brittain Phyllis BentleyInheritancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Piano again disentangled; and some hope, not for it only, but for the tale. I have read it to my mother, who thought it was the only one of mine she had ever heard, that...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevensonunknown "Tale"Manuscript: Unknown, Seems to refer to one of a set of stories that RLS had at various stages of planning and completion, see Letter 329.
1800-1849'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defectiv...James Hogg James HookPercy MalloryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defectiv...James Hogg William Maginn'Letters of Timothy Tickler Esq. to Eminent Litera...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defectiv...James Hogg John Wilson'Wrestliana', in Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectat...Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]The TimesPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectat...Albert Ruskin Cook [n/a] [n/a]SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectator...Albert Ruskin Cook [telegrams]Manuscript: Letter, telegram
1800-1849'pithy & good. He is sure never to offend, usually to instruct & amend'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas ArnoldSermon on the Three Comings of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'Plato and tact sounds like Plato and puppy, an incongruous mixture of ancient and modern, such as only suits the language of second-rate novels. Lady Morgan, I suppose, ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Sydney, Lady MorganWoman: or, Ida of AthensPrint: Book
1850-1899'Played Bezique with Polly in the evening after I had read aloud three Acts of "She stoops to conquer".'John Buckley Castieau Oliver GoldsmithShe stoops to conquerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Played Cricket in the afternoon. Attended a Lecture at the Mechanics Institute. Afterwards Read a little & then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading "Nigel" to Lollie.'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottFortunes of NigelUnknown
1850-1899'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pleasant tea and "Nigel", but I much depressed all the afternoon.'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottFortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Please don't think I am pessimistic I'm only fed up with the blooming rain. We are absolutely bound to win this year if the weather holds good ... Thanks very much...John Lawton New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Please don't worry about me for one single moment. I'm as safe as houses here & having a very jolly time ... Please thank Elsie very much for the photograph & for ...John Lawton William John LockeSeptimusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Please say [if Marian Evans is really the author of Adam Bede...] It is a noble grand book, whoever wrote it, - but Miss Evans' life taken at the best construction, does...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book


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