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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
1850-1899		'The man, a tall, thick-built, almost goodlooking fellow, with a large fur cap on his head, lived with his family in a front kitchen, and as there were, with his mother-i... unknown Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 9th. July 1945
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair

[...]

6. The rest of the evening...		Bruce Dilks Bruce Dilks Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We were taken round the Archives by the Director. I never saw such a place as the Archives. They are in an enormous building of 4 courts, formerly a monastery, and from...Gertrude Bell  Manuscript: Letter in a bound volume of MSS
1900-1945'This morning I read till 11 about Byzantine MSS which I'm going to see at the Bibliothèque Nationale; then I went shopping with the Stanleys and bought a charming little...Gertrude Bell unknown Print: Book
1900-1945'This morning, [...] I went to the Bibliothèque Nationale. [Saloman] Reinach [editor of the "Revue Archéologique"] had given me a letter to one of the directors and I was...Gertrude Bell unknown Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone — reading between the lines — has become the secret friend of th...Katherine Mansfield Jane Austen Print: Book
1850-1899'For the first time we seem to hear the echo of the voice, and to see the picture of the unknown friend who has charmed us so long... So we gladly welcome one more glimps...Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Jane Austen Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. As an introduction to our...		Howard Smith A. A. Milne Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
3. A letter from ...		Francis E. Pollard H. G. Wells Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Roger Moore Percy Bysshe Shelley Unknown
1850-1899'Mummy...read them a lecture of Froude's on the conduct of boys, at breakfast. The contrast between what Froude thought boys ought to be, and what boys are, called fo...Edith Lytton James Anthony Froude Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading a good deal about the doctrine of original sin and the being born again...'Elizabeth Wedgwood  
1900-1945'I went to town in the evening Jack in school brought budget home. I read a little after supper. Mother feeling very comfortable.'Anne Jenkins  Unknown
1850-1899'...my father read aloud. He was a beautiful reader and I enjoyed much of what he read, but I have to confess that I got terribly bored by his own long narrative poems......Emily Lytton Robert Lytton Print: Book
1850-1899'...Mother reads all the new French novels and Rudyard Kipling ... and though she says they are so horrible she can hardly get through them, she will go on reading th...Edith Lytton Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1800-1849Letter 447. April, 19th, 1832: "These are the lines from Anacreon, Makarizomen se tettix, Hote dendreoon ep’ akroon Oligeen droson pepookoos, Basileus hopoos, aeide...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Anacreon Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Ode to France aloud and repeats the poem to tranquility'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge 'France: An Ode' [from] Fears in SolitudePrint: Book
'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I have lost Sight of them: they celebrated Mr Rudd's Fam...Hester Lynch Thrale William Mason 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers' Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have only read the first article of Maga which is a glorious confusion a miscellany of itself the other long articles I dont like'.James Hogg John Wilson 'Hints for the Holidays. No. III' [in Blackwood's...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 24 August 1797: '...tis in the translation of the huge romance Cleopatra by a Robert Loveday, who from the recommendatory...Robert Southey Robert Loveday CléopâtrePrint: Book


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