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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'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 Charles Dickens Print: 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 Charles ReadeCloister and the Hearth, 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 Homer Iliad, thePrint: Book
1700-1799'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilated, and infinitely preferable to his tiresome "Trist...Horace Walpole Laurence SterneSentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilated, and infinitely preferable to his tiresome "Trist...Horace Walpole Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1850-1899'Stevenson's Monthly Cricket.'Robert Louis Stevenson Magazine of ArtPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Still cool and grey. Read Griffith's "Japan" all morning and talked to Mrs Brittingham who is travelling with her husband and a Mr Hickson with astonishing eyebrows.'Gertrude Bell Walter DeningJapan in Days of YorePrint: Book
1850-1899'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Still here [in camp] doing nothing and enjoying books. One book Ernest Maltravers by Lytton has impressed me very much.'John Owen Maddox Edward Bulwer-LyttonErnest MaltraversPrint: Book
1850-1899'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare-brained a rattle as anyone could wish... She nearly...Antonia White Jane Welsh[letters to Carlyle]Print: Book
1900-1945'Still sore and indignant, I happened one day to read some verses by Sir Owen Seaman which I found in a copy of "Punch" dated April 3rd, 1918 - the very week in which our...Vera Brittain Owen SeamanThe Soul of a Nation Print: Serial / periodical, magazine
1900-1945'Still the same fine weather. Reading Head Injuries.'Albert Ruskin Cook Louis Bathe Rawling?Surgery of the HeadPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1800-1849'Still unwell ... had in the course of the day read a good deal of "Colton's Work" with which I was very well satisfied. Concluded it after I went to bed- very well satis...Joseph Jenkinson Calvin ColtonManual for Emigrants to AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Still very rough. No chance of [church] service. Finished George Eliot's "Middlemarch".'Albert Ruskin Cook George Eliot (pseud.)MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1700-1799'Still [in his last days] his love of literature did not fail. A very few days before his death he transmitted to his friend Mr. John Nichols, a list of the authours of t...Samuel Johnson Universal history, from the earliest account of ti...Print: Book
1900-1945'Still, it is a very fine tragedy. So is the Greek play that we are doing. It is quite unlike all that stiff bombast which we are accustomed to associate with Greek tra...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stopped at home & read "The Newcomers" until nearly mid-night.'John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace ThackerayThe NewcomersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stopped at home all the evening really fascinated with Bulwer's "My Novel", got in fact so excited with the story that I became unable quietly to read on regularly, but ...John Buckley Castieau Edward Bulwer LyttonMy NovelPrint: Book


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