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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
 
1900-1945'30th October 1928. I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New Leader?. How funny the Advertiser seems to me rea...Gerald Moore New LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] and Italy than anything else; & which I so wished to h...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot NortonNew Life of Dante, An Essay with TranslationsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]'Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsNew Machiavelli, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Saw at Book John's [In margin: A person who stands in the Market Place & sells books & of whom I have sometimes bought books] "New Memoirs of Literature for the Year 172...Joseph Hunter De La RocheNew Memoirs of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly Magazine", among the very many interesting articles ...Thomas Carter [n/a]New Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Transcript of essay, under the heading 'Today'] 'Today. New Monthly Magazine for January 1823'Charles Holte Bracebridge [n/a]New Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge of the tenets of each. This was supplemented by the...John Bedford Leno New Moral WorldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.'George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesFrancois HuberNew Observations on the Natural History of BeesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "In English I have read nothing new, except M. Arnold's New Poems, which of course you wil...Henry James Matthew ArnoldNew PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Weg, I received your book last night ... You know what a wooden hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary verse .. Hence you will be kind enough to take this fr...Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund GosseNew PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'... only paper I read is the New Statesman once a week, this gives me condensed news of the week, is worth reading because it is well written and gives some food for tho... New StatemanPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.' [n/a]New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945 'Have you read the 'New Statesman' this week? If not, read it. I take pride in the fact that I more than anybody else kept that paper alive during the war.' Arnold Bennett New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Friday 28th May The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has come out on top. The ?Guardian? ?. ?New Statesman? ...Gerald Moore New StatesmanPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I regret that you have given up the "New Statesman". The old editor has returned from the war & the paper is in its best form.' Arnold Bennett New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'How soon are you going to use that contribution by my friend Miss Pauline Smith? I think that last week?s issue was an excellent one.' Arnold Bennett New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The "New Statesman" described the exponents of this policy as "Bitterenders"; their high priest was Lord Vansittart, whose propaganda seemed guaranteed to defeat the str...Vera Brittain New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A letter and package of "New Statesman" and "Times Lit. Supp” came from Mrs. Palmer.' Edmund Blunden New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I don't see the "Spectator" now — I found it so tiresome and stuffy that I abandoned it for the "New Statesman", which is neither. But I really think a paper writt...Gertrude Bell New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [end italics] ... I see all the lists of books on soci...Antonia White [n/a]New Statesman, ThePrint: Serial / periodical


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