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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'Please send me April magazines. Have seen the March ones. The mud is awful — 3 mules drowned in shell craters last night, it is terrible.'Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a][March magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one of the rarest and certainly one of the best of books ...Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel RichardsonClarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.Print: Book
1800-1849'poet's address to twilight / montgomery'Mary Groom James MontgomeryPoet's address to twilightUnknown
1800-1849'Poetry and shoemaking were part of the daily round [for the young Anne Isabella Milbanke]; a grander ambition was taking shape. Translations from Horace [...] Three line...Anne Isabella Milbanke Horace  Print: Book
1800-1849'Poetry Composed by Llewelyn on the Death of his Greyhound' 'The Spearman [spearmen in original] heard the bugle sound/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxWilliam Robert SpencerBeth Gelert, or the Grave of the GreyhoundUnknown
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Adam MickiewiczKonrad WallenrodPrint: Book
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Adam MickiewiczGrazynaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Juliusz Slowacki[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Adam MickiewiczPan TadeuszPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pollock, I must say, has written a handsome and discriminating notice; he thinks too well of the "Pavilion"; but most of what he says is good as criticism and very kindl...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Herries Pollock[review in The Saturday Review]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Polly played the Piano all the evening & I read'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Polly read the Australasian till she was tired & then went to bed'Polly Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Polly then buried her [?] in the last number of the Family Herald & I smoked away at a new pipe'Polly Castieau [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Polly this morning while I was getting up rushed almost breathless into the bed-room with her eyes all alight & The Argus in her hand. "Listen here Castieau" said she & ...Polly Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
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1800-1849		'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm...Elizabeth Inchbald William GodwinMary WollstonecraftPrint: Book
1800-1849'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm...Elizabeth Inchbald RescoeThe Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Pope happened to be the first English poet that [Robert] Story discovered, so he provided the template from which the herd-boy minted pastorals "delightfully free from e...Robert Story Alexander Pope Print: Book
1700-1799'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making any material observations upon it; so that all we c...Joseph Banks Charles De BrossesHistoire des navigations aux terres australes, con...Print: Book
1900-1945'Pouring wet day, so I read the Chartreuse de Parme, and revelled in it.'James Lees-Milne Stendhal (pseud.)Chartreuse de Parme


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