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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
 
1800-1849'He [the new apprentice] made selections from the Old and New Testament history, which he read aloud, and upon which he dilated with a force and eloquence that would have...Martin n/aOld and New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'With the Old Testament, I got on very well; but I was amazed at the difficulty with the New. I knew it to be of so much more value and importance than the Old, that I co...Harriet Martineau Old and New TestamentPrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale William CongreveOld Batchelor, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899From Tennyson's manuscript notes on his volume of Ballads and Poems (1880): '"Rizpah" is founded on an incident which I saw thus related in some penny magazine called ...Alfred Tennyson Old BrightonPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-189918 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Mrs ElliotOld Court Life in FrancePrint: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensOld Curiosity Shop, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I write to thank you for the book [...]. I have already seen most of the papers composing your new vol. ["Old Junk"] and I have appreciated their graphic power, persona...Joseph Conrad Henry Major TomlinsonOld JunkPrint: Book
1900-1945[alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Old Man's Birthday".Hilary Spalding Richmal CromptonOld Man's Birthday, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he was past threescore; beginning Avoir peu de parens...Hester Lynch Thrale Walter PopeOld Mans Wish, ThePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I hasten therefore to tell you without a moments delay what did mean to write (or have perhaps written) that the book ["Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas"] in its hum...Joseph Conrad Clarence AndrewsOld Morocco and the Forbidden AtlasPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson Sir Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1700-1799'I suffered unjustly in the eyes of the world with regard to that tale ['The Brownie of Bodsbeck'], which was looked on as an imitation of the tale of "Old Mortality", an...James Hogg Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I rem...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 21 June 1817:] 'Read Old Mortality; did not like it.'Elizabeth Firth Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.


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...		Rosamund Wallis Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Mary Pollard Robert BrowningOld Pictures in FlorenceUnknown
1800-1849'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Plays for Children". Those of Madame de Genlis have alw...Anne Romilly Maria EdgeworthOld PozPrint: Book


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