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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'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl...Thomas Carlyle Gotthold Ephraim LessingL'Education du genre humainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl...Thomas Carlyle Emile BarraultAux Artistes. Du Passe et du l'avenie des beaux-ar...Print: Book
1700-1799'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Briton" from the publisher of it, Mr Kearsley in Ludga...James Boswell [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Briton" from the publisher of it, Mr Kearsley in Ludga...James Boswell [n/a]The North BritonPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Some time ago I was convinced (I think through reading advertisements) that it was almost as rich in vitamins as butter. Then a friend whose opinion are usually sound to... Advertisement for margarinePrint: Advertisement
1800-1849'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the supposition of selflove being the motive of all our actions. ...Thomas Carlyle Francois VI, Duc de La RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Some time since, all the world was astonished at the 2nd number of "Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) magazine" - The greater part of it is full of gall: but the most veno...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Somebody sent Ben an unexpurgated edition of Gulliver for Xmas. He had read most of it before I discovered. It was disguised as a child's book.'Benedict Nicolson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Somebody sent me a little book called "Aunt Sarah and the War" the other day. Many thanks and jolly good—whoever it was! Send me the "Times" every now and again—wi...Arthur Oscar Hornung Wilfrid MeynellAunt Sarah and the WarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sometime about the twenty first year of my age I perceived the great advantage possessed by those who received a classical education. I had read Byron's "Childe Harold"...Robert White George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold: A Romaunt, Canto IVPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sometimes he [Tennyson] read Grimm's Fairy Stories or repeated ballads to us.'Alfred Tennyson GrimmFairy StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sometimes I read the paper in the morning train, after a casual glance at breakfast time. More usually I read it lunchtime and in the train home at night. The morning pa... NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Sometimes I try if I can talk in that Jargon I us'd to hear but I cannot endure it & the remembrance of what you said puts all they say out--so that men hate me--today a...Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel RogersunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On other occasions I disappeared into a small stock-room...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknown[Books from the 'Everyman's Library' series]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On other occasions I disappeared into a small stock-room...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknown[Books from the 'Everyman's Library' series]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sometimes when I think ... of the Dream-city, with its grey towers and autumn sunsets, and the little room where surrounded by books I used to read "Tess of the D'Urber...Vera Brittain Thomas HardyTess of the D'UrbervillesPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'Somewhat later [than his discovery of Lempriere at 8] another chance discovery which may well have been formative was J.E. Bode's "Ballads from Herodotus", in which the ...Alfred Edward Housman J.E BodeBallads from HerodotusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's "Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings" - concerning which I ...Thomas Carter David SimpsonA Plea for Religion and the Sacred WritingsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Song of the Bells by Charles Swain "Soft upon the summer air,..."'Bowly groupCharles SwainSong of the BellsUnknown
1800-1849'Song of the Bells by Charles Swain'... 'Soft upon the summer air /...'[transcript of text] [NB there was a poet called Charles Swain who published from 1828-1850s].Emma Bowly Charles SwainSong of the BellsUnknown


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