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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'Today has been uneventful and we go into new trenches at 9.30 tonight. It is one mass of mud here now but will soon dry up with the sun. We shall be six days in th...Arthur Oscar Hornung Jules VerneMichael Strogoff: The Courier of the CzarPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 1 August 1826: 'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me about a dozen and dipping into them scrambled throug...Walter Scott MiddletonMichaelmas TermPrint: Book
1600-1699'Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr Hooke's "Microscopicall Observacions", the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.'Samuel Pepys Robert HookeMicrographia [?]Print: Book
1900-1945'Spent a very sleepy afternoon nodding over "Midas"'.Hilary Spalding John LylyMidasPrint: Book
1900-1945[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard wo...Virginia Woolf Mrs EasdaleMiddle Age: 1885-1932Print: Book
1900-1945' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particu...E. Terry anonMiddle High German love-lyricPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particu... anonMiddle High German love-lyricPrint: Book
1850-1899"I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though she does not have such a young lady like admiration fo...Leslie Stephen George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradually won over."anon George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you yet seen Middlemarch? You would not be quite so unsophisticated a visitor to Rome as Miss Brooke.'Robert Louis Stevenson George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931: 'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembered: and Ford M. Ford's memoirs [Thus to Revisit] ...Virginia Woolf George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940: 'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last night with disgust and indignation, but with no intensi...Edward Morgan Forster George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Janet Rawlings George Eliot (pseud.)MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'So we lay all day in the rolling swell, fair in the blast of the dried fish; reading John vii, Odyssey xxiv, a mutilated copy of "Middlemarch" and late man pages of the ...Ronald Storrs George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'The storm came up on us and lightning began so we turned back. Past a grove of lemons and through a farm yard where a woman showed us her miserable baby eaten up with Ma...Gertrude Bell George Eliot (pseud.)MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'Still very rough. No chance of [church] service. Finished George Eliot's "Middlemarch".'Albert Ruskin Cook George Eliot (pseud.)MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945Three months in Asolo had passed in a sort of dream, a little harassed by the floods of people my mother poured over me in my enfeebled state. I had spent long days...Freya Stark George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945Three months in Asolo had passed in a sort of dream, a little harassed by the floods of people my mother poured over me in my enfeebled state. I had spent long days...Herbert Young George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1700-1799'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.'George Austen Francis LathomMidnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incident...Print: Book


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