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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
 
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol: 'Sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment; was ...anon [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849[Reading list by Mary Shelley of Percy Shelley's reading in 1820. All texts are mentioned in journal entries so do not receive separate entries based on this list] 'Sh...Percy Bysshe Shelley New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bi...Virginia Woolf New TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'12 verse. 4th chap: Paul to Timothy; this does strike my mind deeply; Let no man despite thy youth but be thou an example to the believers in word in conversation in cha...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to ...John Ruskin [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Please don't think I am pessimistic I'm only fed up with the blooming rain. We are absolutely bound to win this year if the weather holds good ... Thanks very much...John Lawton New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'The Gospels were as familiar to me as the Lord's Prayer and the Catechism; almost too familiar, ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell New Testament GospelsPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde New Testament in GreekPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelle...Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]New Testament, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks ever so much for the book. One would want a long and warm talk about it.To set down the several trains of thought suggested by your pages would take many pieces o...Joseph Conrad H. G.(Herbert George) WellsNew Words for Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socia...Print: Book
1900-1945"... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's The S...Margaret Cole H. G. WellsNew Worlds for OldPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday...Ford Madox Ford William McFeeNew York Herald Tribune BooksPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am not half so pleased [as with "The Last Post"] with "New York is not America", the American proofs of which I am now wading through. The sentences seem to be so drea...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordNew York is Not AmericaPrint: page proofs for American edition
1900-1945'He told me later that the "New York Post" announced the conclusion of the war in Europe under the headline: "Now We Must Crush the Japs!"'George Catlin New York PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Letter 292 7 October 1940 Referring to the Blitz on London: 'I see in to-day?s [New York] "Times" that you had a night of respite yesterday ? let?s hope you have lots ...Benjamin Britten [n/a]New York TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have just bought the New York Times - wh. feels relatively home-like & read that the AMERICAN CHORUS GIRL IS BEAUTIFUL BUT SHE IS KNOCK-KNEED SAYS FLORENCE SIEGFIELDJU...Ford Madox Ford [n/a]New York TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Into my mind flashed the "New York Times" headlines which I had read over breakfast that morning.'Vera Brittain New York TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday...Ford Madox Ford [n/a]New York Times Book ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Opening the "Newcastle Chronicle" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed "A Coalowner". From beginning to end the letter was a fierce diatribe aga...Thomas Burt [n/a]Newcastle ChroniclePrint: Newspaper


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