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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'Read "An Adventure of the North".'John Frederick William Dunn Gilbert ParkerAn Adventure of the NorthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tues. PC from Registrar. Read the Right of Way by Sir Gilbert Parker.'William Thomas Gilbert ParkerThe Right of WayPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation, which, for the first time, analyses the meaning, & ...Virginia Woolf Gilbert SeldesReview of James Joyce, UlyssesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gilbert WhiteThe Works, in Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'I remember reading White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn[e] with great pleasure when a Boy at school ...'William Wordsworth Gilbert WhiteNatural History and Antiquities of SelbornePrint: Book
1850-1899'Headache. Read Lucrezia Floriani. We are reading White's History of Selborne in the evening'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesGilbert WhiteThe Natural History of SelbornePrint: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson Gilbert White[natural history]Print: Book
1800-1849'A fortnight ago, having employed myself in reading White's "Selborne", and being extremely fond of natural history, and, of course, highly delighted with that book, I wa...Sir William Elford Gilbert WhiteSelbornePrint: Book
1800-1849'draw her [Harriet, a girl LC is teaching] to such books as White's "Natural History of Selborne", but do not bother and (though I hate the word) [italics] bore [end ital...Louisa, Lady Stuart Gilbert WhiteNatural History of Selborne, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'One of the books I read then for the first time was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres [sic], who had been ...William Henry Hudson Gilbert WhiteThe Natural History and Antiquities of SelbornePrint: Book
1900-1945One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The...Robert Stark Gilbert WhiteThe Natural History and Antiquities of SelbornePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Gilbert Keith Chesterton[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" M...T.C. Elliott Gilbert Keith Chesterton'Lepanto'Print: Book
1900-1945'One Friday afternoon I went to the [italics] Daily Herald [end italics] office to call on a friend. As I entered the building a taxi stopped at the door and I found G....Gilbert Keith Chesterton Gilbert Keith ChestertonBackfile of his own articles published in the "Dai...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the comple...Thomas A. Jackson Giles Fletcher[poems complete works]Print: Book
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...William Prynne Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...anon ("others") Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book, proof copy
1700-1799'[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Galant le plus Pedant, et le Pedant le plus galant qu'on...Hester Lynch Thrale Gilles MenageMenagianaPrint: Book
'I was reading today where Menage tells a story of a notable fellow in his native town Angers, who was such a bustler that they called him sport Monsieur Tracas.' Hester Lynch Thrale Gilles MenageMenagianaPrint: Book


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