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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'Breakfast time - that is 8 to 8.30. I rarely pick up the newspaper again during the day, unless there happens to be a feature article I haven't managed to glance through... NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I keep reading and reading the news, and I can't make out why I'm not more excited. I mean, it's so marvelous, really, isn't it? But I kind of feel I can't believe in it... NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read a newspaper chiefly from a sense of shame, because I dislike being ill-informed, and I am a social creature, and like to be able to hold my own in conversation.... newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I look through a newspaper very much in the mood in which I go out for a stroll or light a cigarette by the front door late on a summer evening.' newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I slept a little and next morning being Friday amused myself in bed with the Times, the Daily Herald, the New Statesman and Nation, the Times Literary Supplement (which ...Cyril Lionel Robert James newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspapers.' newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 14th. Get up late -- Write my journal [...] Read the Papers.' Claire Clairmont newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Monday June 26th. [...] Read Newspapers' [makes notes on military recruitment and funding issues reported]. ...Claire Clairmont newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Friday Nov. 24th. Read Newspapers.'Claire Clairmont NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Thursday August [...] 25th. [...] After dinner I take up the Newspaper by accident and read there an account of a duel between Trelawny [close friend] and another engl...Claire Clairmont newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] November 2nd. [...] A packet of Newspapers from Mr. Baxter. I sit in my room & read them all the evening.'Claire Clairmont newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thanks to the efficiency of Mr Kydd, we were overtaken here by a runner, and spent a pleasant half-hour in the shade reading letters from home, and the latest sensations...Frank Smythe newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Disraeli's, Tulloch's and Greyfriars' addresses were all three excellent; Disraeli's brilliant.'Robert Louis Stevenson newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-194524 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'Virginia Woolf newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-194524 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'Lytton Strachey newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'They arrived late that evening bringing letters from home, and newspapers. As regards the world's news I confess that the first thing I turned to was the cricket reports...Frank Smythe newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945 'We were shocked and saddened to read in the newspapers of Lieutenant-Colonel H.T.Morshead's tragic death in Burma. The association of mountaineering in the past and mou...Frank Smythe (team leader) and other (unspecified) members of 1931 Kamet Expedition newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [garage], & then home, & read St Paul & the papers [....Virginia Woolf newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Scottish dailies have begun to review my "Folly" ["Almayer's Folly"]. brief, journalistic, but full of praise! Above all, the "Scotsman", the major Edinburgh paper, ...Joseph Conrad newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Referring to the reporting of the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): 'I can't say I shared in the hysterical transports of some public organs for the sim...Joseph Conrad newspapersPrint: Newspaper


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