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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'"Been across before?" I asked him, condescendingly.
"Once or twice," he answered with a grin. "Have you?"
"A few times," I admitted largely; and I proceeded ...		Desmond Malone Frederick MarryatMidshipman EasyPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield...		Violet Clough John MasefieldMidsummer NightUnknown
1800-1849'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read yet and hope I shall not leave the world without read...John Clare William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'Never was there such a representative of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.'Walter Scott William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamUnknown
1850-1899'"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening'John Ruskin William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how many beautiful Images [italics] Milton [end italics]...Laetitia Pilkington William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's Dream, APrint: Book
1850-1899'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that Mr and Mrs Morland read a selection from Macbeth'.XII Book Club membersWilliam ShakespeareMidsummer Night's Dream, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Alfred Rawlings Anon.MigrationsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'Mary Godwin Charles MaturinMilesian Chief, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audience of Marguerite Sheldon and Knoblock's agent Miss Ka...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettMilestonesManuscript: Unknown
1850-189916 July 1857: 'Sitting alone at breakfast I took up the paper and saw in the military intelligence that Montague [son]'s regiment (2nd Batt. Rifle Brigade) was under o...Lady Charlotte Schreiber military intelligence columnPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849W. E. Gladstone to John Murray (from January 1843), on Lieutenant Eyre, Military Operations in Cabool [sic for Kabul]: 'I have read it with great pain and shame, whi...W. E. Gladstone Lieutenant EyreMilitary Operations in CaboolPrint: Book
1850-1899'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of you, & am so greedy to read it I can scarcely be gra...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read it.'Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: 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.]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook George Eliot (pseud.)Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'borrowing a Hint from a Story in the [italics] Peruvian [end italics] Tales; I form'd from it the following Poem' [she then gives the text of a long poem called 'The Sta...Laetitia Pilkington Thomas-Simon GueuletteMille et une heures, contes peruviensPrint: Book
1900-1945'According to R.C.K. Ensor's "Miniature History of the War", "the annihilating raid on Lubeck...and the raid of 1,130 bombers on Cologne...each marked an epoch" in Allied...Vera Brittain Robert Charles Kirkwood EnsorMiniature History of the WarPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...'Florence White Maria CharlesworthMinistering ChildrenPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wide World".'Flora Thompson Maria CharlesworthMinistering ChildrenPrint: Book


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