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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
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from h...Edwin Muir [study of David Hume]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from h...Edwin Muir Christopher Marlowe Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from h...Edwin Muir George Crabbe Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i...Neville Cardus n/a[boys' papers]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Ezra Pound, having acquired a copy of Algernon Swinburne's Laus Veneris already annotated by somebody else, took pains to dissociate himself from the other's views [addi...Ezra Pound annotations in copy of Algernon Swinburne, Laus Ve...Manuscript: annotations in printed text
1850-1899
1900-1945		H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" by Philip Gosse of his grandfather, Edmund Gosse's Life of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S. (1890) with letters, drawings, photographs e...Philip Gosse Edmund GosseLife of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S.Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f...A.E. Coppard Thomas Hardy[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f...Alfred Edgar Coppard William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f...Alfred Edgar Coppard HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f...Alfred Edgar Coppard William MorrisThe Earthly ParadisePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f...Alfred Edgar Coppard Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already he was reading as a writer reads, with a view to us...John Masefield Herman MelvilleThe Green HandPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield George Meredith Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Robert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Gustave Flaubert Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Print: Book


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