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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'I read where there's going to be a war soon, it said so in the "People", they tell you what's going to be, there's more than something in it.' [n/a]PeoplePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, the Mirror at odd moments and the People on Sunday m... PeoplePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'We have the Sunday Express because it is more newsy, and the People because my mother likes the women's page and father likes the 'Plan with the Planets' astrological fo... PeoplePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Places"'.Hilary Spalding unknownPeople and PlacesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".'Hilary Spalding unknownPeople's Government, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power of virtue on the mind is well contrasted with the ma...Anna Larpent Hannah MorePercyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defectiv...James Hogg James HookPercy MalloryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Honore de BalzacPere GoriotPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies and clergymen'.Sydney Smith Honore de BalzacPere GoriotPrint: Book
1900-1945'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild Asses Skin. A general discussion on the novel & the ...Mary Robson Honore de BalzacPere GoriotPrint: Book
1600-1699'have you read the Story of China written by a Portuguese, Fernando Mendez Pinto I think his name is . . . tis as diverting a book of the kinde as ever I read, and is han...Dorothy Osborne Fernao Mendes PintoPeregrinacaoPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1700-1799'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".'Patrick Delany Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
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 Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore GabouisPerfide Albion ? Entente CordialPrint: 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 William ShakespearePericlesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I revised "Pericles" [for Elocution exam] and wrote notes on it. It's a horrid play, completely unlikely but quite fast moving.'Hilary Spalding William ShakespearePericlesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andronicus, & Coriolanus.'Virginia Woolf William ShakespearePericlesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf William ShakespearePericlesPrint: Book


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