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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'Why the hell did you or your printers - a lousy lot whom I abominate - pass over a correction of mine and send me sprawling down to posterity as an ignoramus who thought...Robert Louis Stevenson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Charles Evans John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Reginald Robson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Ursula Unwin John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am reading at present, what do you think? Our own friend "Pilgrim's Progress". It is one of those books that are usually read too early to appreciate, and perhap...Clive Staples Lewis John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mary Gaywood giving evidence at the trial for theft of her servant Eleanor Clark at the Old Bailey, 21 October 1761: "Last Tuesday right she went away, and not coming ...Eleanor Clark John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'The book of my boyhood was, however, the "Pilgrim's Progress", a beautiful edition of which was given me by a paternal uncle. I used to read it from morning to night, ...John Leatherland John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Here, owing to the fact that I had not yet discovered the depths of my Philosopher's incompetence, and we spent three weary days, relieved only by "The Pilgrim's P...Freya Stark John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and the conduct of the story; and it has had the best evi...Samuel Johnson John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Fernão Mendes PintoPilgrimage of Fernam Mendez Pinto in which is told...Print: Book
'I had a note from Mr Jeffery [sic] on the very day after [Hogg's The Pilgrims of the Sun] was published who is not going to review it till he get another to join with it...Francis Jeffrey James HoggPilgrims of the Sun, ThePrint: 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...Miss Marriage, Henry Marriage Wallis, Percy Kaye and Walter RowntreeHenrik IbsenPillars of Society, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I remember being called to Cambridge to act as a judge at an exhibition of basket-work at the local institute. My office concluded, I strolled about, admiring the beauty...university undergraduates [n/a]Pink 'UnPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I am told that in a book of Sir Chartres Biron there is a passage against book censorship. Can you give me the reference to this passage? One of them is entitled 'Pious...Arnold Bennett Chartres BironPious OpinionsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Ian HayPipPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have been looking into your Pippa...Thomas Carlyle Robert BrowningPippa PassesPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa passes" -- is almost the only poem of his that I have ...Thomas Westwood Robert BrowningPippa PassesPrint: Book


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