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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'Send an English newpaper (not the Daily Mail as we have it here) occasionally. We are forbidden to send picture postcards now. I am in a hurry to catch the mail, so I ...Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Send me Lane's exact address and I will forward him the MS of "[The Holy] Mountain". I've just finished re-reading the whole. My impression--which you know of--is genera...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Holy MountainManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a ...James Hogg John Wilson[ review of 'Hogg's Tales, &c.']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a ...James Hogg [ essay on H.H. Milman's painting 'The Fall of Jer...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Sent 29 stuff hats to Mr Booth -heard the "Iris" Paper read by Tom, find the country is much agitated at the conduct of ministers.'Tom [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Sent for a pot of porter. J.I. and myself drank it, I smoked a pipe read a little in an old "Sheffield Iris"- then wrote this paragraph.'Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Sent Julia to church with the children & stopped at home myself & read a new Book of Trollope's, "The Vicar of Bullhampton", much the same sort of Book as Trollope's boo...John Buckley Castieau Anthony TrollopeThe Vicar of BullhamptonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sent last night to WM a Basket... after that amused myself by reading in the Spectator the account of Sir Roger de Coverley, It really is an entertaining description of ...Robert Sharp The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Sep. The story of a hate'Sarah Good Robert BuchananGod and the ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sep.Sep at Harborne'Sarah Good James BarrieThe Little MinisterPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sept. (Trans. into German)'Sarah Good Bjornstjerne BjornsonEin Frohlicher BurschPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sept. Nov. Very interesting'Sarah Good Arthur Penrhyn StanleyLife of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of RugbyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sept. Trans. from Norwegian by Eliz. Carmichael. A very strange book. I don't care for it at all.'Sarah Good Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonIn God's WayPrint: Book
1600-1699'September 2. I had bin grievously and causlessly defamed by one from whom I deserved it not; this day he came to quarrell with mee, and I used bitter expressions to him ...Isaac Archer Bishop HallSermon on Ephesians 4:30Print: Book
1900-1945'Set the night working parties on their job. Got the paper — no news.'Thomas Stafford Wollocombe unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England their England", which I loved - it's most clever & int...Hilary Spalding Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England their England", which I loved - it's most clever & int...Hilary Spalding A.G. MacdonellEngland their EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Seven or eight numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser came to hand to-day. In one of them I was sorry to read an account of Mrs Slater having had an accident & broken ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare rea...Shakespeare Reading Circle (local)William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare rea...Shakespeare Reading Circle (local)William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book


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