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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[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due...Lucy Maud Montgomery Hans Christian AndersenFairy TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls w...girls at the Passmore Edwards SettlementHans Christian AndersenFairytalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Whenever she felt morose or lonely she looked into books, and, having an insatiable curiosity, by the time she was three she had taught herself to read. Hans Christian A...Edith Sitwell Hans Christian AndersenFairy TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 19 March 1845: 'Mind you read Andersen's "Improvisatore." I have just finished it, -- & am charmed, -- though of story, the...Elizabeth Barrett Hans Christian AndersenThe Improvisatore: or, Life in ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845: 'That book you like so, the Danish novel, must be full of truth & beauty, to judge from the few ...Robert Browning Hans Christian AndersenThe Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Hans Christian AndersenunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would learn to read as a means of avoiding that particular...Rosemary Sutcliff Hans Christian AndersenLittle Match Girl, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don’t remember any child’s book. I don’t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo’s "Travailleurs...Joseph Conrad Hans Christian AndersenTales (unspecified collection)Print: Book
1850-1899'Charles was reading Hans Andersen: I wanted the book, asked for it, fussed for it, and finally broke into tears.'Charles Thomas Hans Christian Anderson Print: Book
1900-1945Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a young girl's feet in a missionary book about China, ...Patricia Beer Hans Christian AndersonThe Little MermaidPrint: Book
1900-1945In 'The Ugly Duckling' the meaning was something that in my own way I thought about much of the time: I was destined for a higher sphere and would be appreciated when I a...Patricia Beer Hans Christian AndersonThe Ugly DucklingPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Hans Christian AndersonThe Snow QueenPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman Hans Christian AndersonThe Little Match GirlPrint: Book
1900-1945?One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? from Hans Anderson to Boris Godonof.? Benjamin Britten Hans Christian Anderson Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Saadye's [for Saabye's] Journal in Greenland'Mary Shelley Hans Egede SaabyeGreenland : being Extracts from a Journal kept in ...Print: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Ernest E. Unwin Harold Begbie[book of 'backstairs biographies']Print: Book
1900-1945'By the way who wrote the "Mirrors of Downing St"? Some of the things in it are very good.' Gertrude Bell Harold BegbieThe Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Refl...Print: Book
1900-1945'Sunday. Finished Orcival. Read "Vigil" by Harold Begbie. 4-5 Service. Spoilt all by laughing. Sorry for parson.'William Thomas Harold BegbieThe VigilPrint: Book
1900-1945'4th January ? Tuesday. ?Captain Shapely? Harold Brighouse. A well- written yarn this. Very, very entertaining, and in a style I like. No superfluous verbiage.' Gerald Moore Harold BrighouseCaptain ShapelyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene; 6.XII.'32.
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
2. A statement of ...		Reginald H. Robson Harold BrighouseLonesome-LikePrint: Book


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