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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'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave about it! How well you define one of its characterestic...Sarah Harriet Burney Catherine Anne DorsetPeacock "at home", ThePrint: Book
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 Walter de la MarePeacock PiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several other books, Rhodes Peak Scenery, in 4, I think, thin 4 ...Anne Lister Peak Scenery, or Excursions in DerbyshirePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Pearson'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel...Margaret Oliphant unknownPeasant LifePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edmund Elys, 'Peccatum Redivivum: Or, The Rebellion of a Conquer'd Lust'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Edmund ElysPeccatum Redivivum: Or, The Rebellion of a Conquer...Print: Book
1850-1899'From that time for ten years Conrad followed the sea. The deep sea, reading all sorts of books. Once an officer with quarters of his own he resumed his reading of French...Joseph Conrad Pierre LotiPêcheur d'IslandePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading "Peculiarities of Behaviour" by Wilhelm Stekel. It is curious how these psychoanalysts boil everything down to food urge or sex urge.'Thomas Kitching Wilhelm StekelPeculiarities of BehaviourPrint: Book
1850-1899'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f...Thomas Jones Farell Lee BevanPeep of DayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 27th January, Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bursary to Oxford or Cambridge. We talked of the diffi...Gerald Moore Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-1-28) though my former criticism stands [i.e. that i...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-1-28) though my former criticism stands [i.e. that i...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt co...Helen Rawlings Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt co...Margery Rawlings Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt co...Alfred Rawlings Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1800-1849Lord Webb Seymour to Mary Berry, 16 July 1809: 'I hope you will congratulate [John] Playfair for me and for yourself, upon his late publication -- "a Peerage" in five...Lord Galloway John PlayfairPeeragePrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living 'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about partic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] BurkePeeragePrint: Book
1850-1899'I had an opportunity once of reading, side by side,the despatches of the Chinese commander (published in the "Peking Gazette") and the despatches of the French general ...Francis Younghusband Peking GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers rea...Elizabeth Barrett Edward George Bulwer-LyttonPelham, or The Adventures of a GentlemanPrint: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocquev...Virginia Woolf George Bernard ShawPen Portraits and ReviewsPrint: Book


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