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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
 
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] After dinner M. Gambs reads aloud the 3, 4, 5, and 6th. Canto of Moses [goes on to comment upon this text in detail].'Claire Clairmont Chretien-Hermann GambsMoses (Cantos 3, 4, 5, 6)Unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 4 June 1802, "... a tranquil night ... I read Mother Hubbard's Tale before I went to bed."Dorothy Wordsworth Mother Hubbard's TaleUnknown
1900-1945'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means exhausted them yet. ?Mahatma Gandhi? I am reading at...Winifred Agnes Moore Katherine MayoMother IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'Alfred Hitchcock Motion Picture DailyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'Alfred Hitchcock Motion Picture HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843: 'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their reprint to acknowledge that kindness [...] Since then...Elizabeth Barrett Cornelius MathewsMotley BookPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we get none here — we're miles from civilization.'Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]Motor CyclePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]Motor CyclePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we get none here — we're miles from civilization.'Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]Motor CyclingPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]Motor CyclingPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It so happened that you were the very first man in England that testified approbation of my rude genius after the publication of the Mountain Bard, which you did to Mr S...Robert Surtees James HoggMountain Bard, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am not a little proud of the approbation you have been pleased to bestow upon a mountain Bard'.Robert Surtees James HoggMountain Bard, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I have heard Johnson say that there was no Series of Verses in any English Tragedy so sublime & striking as the passage in Congreve's Mourning Bride: beginning thus H...Samuel Johnson William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Samuel Johnson William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting w...		Howard Smith James BridieMr Bolfry: a play in four scenesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting w...		Cyril Langford James BridieMr Bolfry: a play in four scenesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting w...		A. Austin Miller James BridieMr Bolfry: a play in four scenesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting w...		Bruce Dilks James BridieMr Bolfry: a play in four scenesPrint: Book


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