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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
 
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia reads the Life of Mrs Humphry Ward & I the Poor Law Mino...Leonard Woolf Poor Law Minority ReportPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I threw myself (in a manner of speaking) on "Popes et popadias" with eagerness and high hopes. From the first lines my hopes were realised - and then very quickly surpas...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaPopes et popadias (published in book form as Les F...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. The international murderess episodes take but a littl...Joseph Conrad Stefan ZeromskiPopiolyPrint: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Stefan ZeromskiPopiolyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c.1868) read the merchandise [mainly popular song and...Seamus MacManus popular chapbooksPrint: Book
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt [n/aPopular EducatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from Cobbett; the lessons in Cassell?s "Popular Educator"...William Edwin Adams John CassellPopular EducatorPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".'George Eliot (pseud) Agnes CatlowPopular Field BotanyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...Vera Brittain popular novelsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Benn WalshPopular Opinions on Parliamentary ReformPrint: Book
1850-1899" ... [Mrs Layton (b. 1855)] remembers, when she was in service, and about sixteen, being lent some 'trashy books' by the servant next door: narratives which came out in ...Mrs Layton popular serial fictionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so li...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell G.W. DasentPopular Tales from the NorsePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. I read a good deal of the "Port Royal Gr...Mountstuart Elphinstone unknownPort Royal Greek GrammarPrint: Book
1850-1899Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry James, November-early December 1887: "I must break out with the news that I can't bear the Portrait of a Lady. I read it all, and I wept,...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry JamesPortrait of a LadyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home next week. I have just read James' "A portrait of a...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesPortrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also...Laura Mary Forster Henry JamesPortrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Hugh WalpolePortrait of a Man with Red HairPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read no...Brett YoungPortrait of a VillagePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912: 'I received longer ago than I quite lke to give chapter and verse for your so-vividly interesting volume of literary "Portra...Henry James Edmund GossePortraits and SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] talk, - oh so slowly - as we stroll arm in arm in the W...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesPortraits of placesPrint: Book


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