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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[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding George SavaHealing Knife, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Lovely week-end with Kit. Reached Watford about 1.30.... She is passionately interested in Polar exploration and had a book on Dr Wilson. I skimmed through. There we...Vere Hodgson George SeaverEdward Wilson of the Antarctic, Naturalist and Fri...Print: Book
1800-1849'entertained me much, though they would probably have not so much interest out of this family, to which so many of them relate. My father is much annoyed at having so man...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth George SelwynCorrespondencePrint: Book
1700-1799'As W[ordsworth] recalled in the Fenwick Note to We are Seven ... his reading of Shelvocke's Voyages inspired the killing of the albatross in C[oleridge]'s Ancient Marine...William Wordsworth George ShelvockeVoyage Round the World by the Way of the Great Sou...Print: Book
1700-1799'We took Beroe incrassata, Medusa limpidissima, plicata and obliquata, Alcyonium anguillare (probably the thing that Shelvoke mentions in his "Voyage Round the World" p. ...Joseph Banks George ShelvockeA Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South...Print: Book
1700-1799'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning sev...Samuel Johnson George Smallridge[Sermons]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Bought Mr Smith's "Sermon to the Odd Fellows", Professor Robinson's "Proof of a Conspiracy" seems to have made a deep impression on his mind. Price 6d. Bought also the...Joseph Hunter George SmithA Sermon Delivered in the Parish Church of Sheffie...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Read a pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: "Hints for the times", true and useful, but a painful instance of the weak and conventional writing whic...John Ruskin George SmithHints for the timesPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799Afternoon read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. of Prayers not being granted immediately.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read one sermon and part of another of Dr Stanhope's of Death and Judgement, and of the sufficiency of the scriptures. I think he is a better orator than casuist: his arg...Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799After dinner, garden 1 1/2 hours feeding the foul. Drank coffee. Made an end of the sermon.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 2 sermons of Dr Stanhope's, one to sea men, the other on the 5th November.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Did not go to church. Read a funeral sermon of Dr Stanhope's.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799I sat in the Parlor; drank coffee and read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's...Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read part of a sermon of Dr Stanhope's.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's to the sons of the clergy. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23 September 1841: 'Mr Horne set me Martinuzzi to read, a day or two ago [...] Martinuzzzi is in a course of performance s...Elizabeth Barrett George StephensMartinuzziUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 October 1841: 'I have not heard from Mr Horne since he wrote to me of Martinuzzi .. A friend of mine, Mrs Orme (who liv...Dr Tom Stone George StephensMartinuzziPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 20 June 1903: 'Are you in London & are you going to bring your [cricket] team? I wish you would as I am in a raging temper, which...Leonard Woolf George Stout[on Psychology]Print: Book
1900-1945It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bettesworth' to Pearson's (a firm for which he was not a...Arnold Bennett George Sturt The Bettesworth BookManuscript: Sheet


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