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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'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

[...]		Rosamund Wallis Frederick HamiltonThe Vanished Pomps of Yesterday: Being some random...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have dipped into Mr Harrison; in fact almost read it, here & there in bits - I feel as if in one or two places I could have told him more, or set him to rights; but th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick Harrison[MS of impressions of manufacturing districts of L...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed b...Frederick Harrison Frederick Harrison'The relativity of Knowledge'Unknown
1850-1899'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve...Chester Armstrong Frederick Marryat Print: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Frederick MarryatMr Midshipman EasyPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay muc...Grace Macaulay Frederick MarryatThe Settlers in CanadaPrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Frederick MarryatMasterman ReadyPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Frederick Marryat Print: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Frederick MarryatMasterman Ready, or the Wreck in the PacificPrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Frederick Marryat[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Frederick MarryatMasterman ReadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Frederick MarryatThe Children of the New ForestPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham Frederick Marryat[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'.Sydney Smith Frederick MarryatThe Settlers in CanadaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls w...boys at the Passmore Edwards SettlementFrederick MarryatMasterman ReadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] had read Marryat's [...] A Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutions (1839), in 1841'. ...Elizabeth Barrett Frederick MarryatA Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutio...Print: Book
1850-1899'Don't read noble old Fred's Pirate anyhow; it is written in sand with a salt spoon: arid, feeble, vain, tottering production.'Robert Louis Stevenson Frederick MarryatThe Pirate Print: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad Frederick MarryatPeter SimplePrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad Frederick MarryatMr Midshipman EasyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Evening wrote to Billy[.] Mammy read to us a very amusing book called "The little savage".'Florence Bell Frederick Marryat The Little SavagePrint: Book


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