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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'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time well written, unlike the trashy love stories of Eth...Phillip GibbsNettle DangerPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ferdinand Friedrich RungeNeveste phytochemische Entdeckingen zur BegrundungPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he ...Joseph Conrad Michael MonahanNew AdventuresPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow...Ruth Slate New AgePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'And Bennett had now become a man of influence, largely through his "New Age" pieces. These articles, which he had begun in 1908, were widely read and admired . . . Ford...Ford Madox Ford Arnold BennettNew AgePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter & the 2 numbers. I think the paper is very interesting.' Arnold Bennett New AgePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I have hardly read a book except for strictly professional purposes for 3 months & more. One of the few I have read is Dixon's New America. I should like to know what yo...Leslie Stephen W Hepworth DixonNew AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849"Florence Nightingale's copy of Mrs. Trimmer's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman History (1818) has Nightingale's autograph in penc...Florence Nightingale Mrs TrimmerNew and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a Genera...Print: Book
1850-1899'We read aloud one of the ''New Arabian Nights'' you mention, which is very amusing ... I particularly admire the ending of the bandbox story...'Emma Darwin Robert Louis StevensonNew Arabian NightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Such a moment I experienced last night when I read Murray's article in "New Britain" on "Shakespeare and Socialism" - I felt as if in my sonnet, "To Marx", I had put Mur...William Soutar [n/a]New BritainPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal d...Reginald Robson Laurence HousmanNew Child's Guide to KnowledgePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Only recently I discovered its origin in Longfellow's "New England Tragedies", read and re-read during my childhood when Longfellow and Matthew Arnold were the only poet...Vera Brittain Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNew England TragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 26 October 1831: 'Here we are [at Portsmouth] still fixd by the inexorable wind [...] I engaged in a new novel by Mr. Smith calld New Forest. It is written ...Walter Scott SmithNew ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945Thomas Burke on literary figures' responses to his requests, as a teenager, for advice on starting a career as a writer: '... they spoke of the stress and anxiety of the ...Thomas Burke George GissingNew Grub StreetPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to aprec...Howard R. Smith George GissingNew Grub StreetPrint: Book
1500-1599'then I hard Mrs Brutnell Read of the Herball tell supper time'Mrs Brutnell William TurnerNew herballPrint: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I went about the house, and read of the arball'Margaret Hoby William TurnerNew herballPrint: Book
1600-1699'tell about 3 a Cloke: then I rede of the arball'Margaret Hoby William TurnerNew herballPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Read the New Inn of Ben Jonson & 2 canto's of Dante with S. - he reads the Alchemist aloud in the evening'.Mary Shelley Ben JonsonNew Inn, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 20th November. I do not care much for the new form of the ?New Leader?. It is the useless hopeless propagandist rag. It is a shame, when under Brailsford...Gerald Moore New LeaderPrint: Serial / periodical


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