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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'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen George Macdonald[probably] Princess and Curdie, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Lady Byron was to [George] MacDonald the protectress, the adviser, and once at least the extremely rigorous critic. 'It was through the reading of his narrative poem,...Anne Isabella Lady Noel Byron George MacDonaldWithin and WithoutPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read fairy tales by George MacDonald.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook George MacDonaldThe Fairy Tales of George MacDonaldPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'I have had a great literary experience this week. I have discovered yet another author to add to our circle — our very own set: never since I first read "The well at t...Clive Staples Lewis George MacdonaldPhantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Your verdict upon Macdonald's tale was worthy of so shrewd and serious a gentleman as yourself...' (2) 'And talking about books I am surprised that you don't say m...Clive Staples Lewis George MacdonaldThe Golden KeyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", proposing many things paradoxicall to our common opin...Samuel Pepys George MackenzieReligio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the ph...Print: Book
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong George Meredith Print: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards George Meredith Print: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay George Meredith Print: Book
1900-1945'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'Philip Ballard George Meredith Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...George Meredith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed through her household in the 1890s: "The best I had in th...George MeredithNovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'At one poetical evening [at Wilfrid Blunt's home Crabbet Park], when the guests included A. E. Housman and Desmond MacCarthy ... Wilfrid [Meynell] was requested to read ...Wilfrid Meynell George MeredithModern LovePrint: Book
1850-1899"[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in letter of 22 August 1894], 'unspeakable' ... he could ...Henry James George MeredithLord Ormont and his AmintaPrint: Book
1850-1899'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w...Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1850-1899"[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after its publication when Meredith sent him a copy in 18...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt George MeredithModern LovePrint: Book
1900-1945"Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On 10 March 1916 she tested this proposition by reading...Lady Cynthia Asquith George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945"... Lady Cynthia [Asquith] was gratified to learn that, found in his pocket when Billy Grenfell was killed in battle in 1915 was a Meredith poem, copied out for him by h...Lady Desborough George Meredithpoem
1900-1945"At the age of 18 Violet Asquith ... tackled The Egoist, which 'I thought brilliant. The first 3 pages made me so angry by their obscureness ... that I nearly left off ....Violet Asquith George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies George Meredith Print: Book


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