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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'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introduced him to Greek mythology, "which in time brought ...Thomas A. Jackson James George Frazer"The Golden Bough"Print: Book
1850-1899'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introduced him to Greek mythology, "which in time brought ...Thomas A. Jackson [Greek myths]Print: Book
1850-1899'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to their opinion".'John Ruskin Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson's acute and passionate wisdom. (Examine passage I, ...John Ruskin William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Talk and read the newspapers'.Percy Bysshe Shelley [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Talk and read the papers'Mary Godwin [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Mary Godwin Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.)Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Talked twenty minutes with two Egyptian officers who seemed a little out of the picture, and to bed, after fifty or sixty pages of "Mr Britling".'Ronald Storrs Herbert George WellsMr Britling sees it throughPrint: Book
1850-1899'Talking about G. Meredith, I have just re-read for the third and fourth time The Egoist.'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1700-1799'Talking of "The Spectator", he said, "It is wonderful that there is such a proportion of bad papers, in the half of the work which was not written by Addison; for there ...Samuel Johnson Henry Grove'Novelty' [essay in The Spectator]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Talking of birds, I mentioned Mr. Daines Barrington's ingenions Essay against the received notion of their migration'.James Boswell Daines Barrington[Essay on bird migration]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Talking of books — you might ask, when do I talk of anything else — I have read and finished "The Green Knight", which is absolutely top-hole: in fact the only fault I...Clive Staples Lewis Ernest John Brigham KirtlanSir Gawain and the Green Knight: Rendered Literall...Print: Book
1800-1849'Talking of books, we have lately had a literary Sun shine forth upon us here, before whom our former luminaries must hide their diminished heads - a Mr Shelley, of Unive...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Percy Bysshe ShelleyPosthumous Fragments of Margaret NicholsonPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'Talking of Kipling it is time you began him: try "Rewards & Fairies" and if the first story in it "Cold Iron" doesn't knock you head over heels, I don't know what will...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard KiplingRewards and FairiesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Talking of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that species of wit, deigned to allow that there was one good pun in "Menagiana," I think on the word corps'.Samuel Johnson Monsieur MenageMenagiana Ou Les Bons MotsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...James Boswell Gilbert BurnetSome passages of the life and death of the Right H...Print: Book
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...Samuel Johnson Gilbert BurnetSome passages of the life and death of the Right H...Print: Book
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...Samuel Johnson John Wilmot, Lord Rochester[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...John Taylor John Wilmot, Lord Rochester[Poems]Print: Book


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