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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes receiving only 'two last volumes' of 'Mr Clarkson's Book': 'we may yet have to wait a fortnight or three weeks for the other [received by Wil...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas ClarksonPortraiture of Quakerism as taken from a view of t...Print: Book
1800-1849'W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second volume being exceedingly disfigured by perpetual use...William Wordsworth Thomas ClarksonPortraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 16th. [...] Begin Seitenstuck zum Flussgitt Niemen von Kotzebue. [...] 'Sunday May 20th. [...] Finish Possen von [...] Kotzebue.'Claire Clairmont August Friedrich Ferdinand von KotzebuePossen, die Zeit beachtend, bey Gelegenheit des Ru...Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfred Rawlings The Crescent Moon - Katherine I. Evans ...Charles Evans Rabindranath TagorePost OfficePrint: Book
1850-1899'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shepherding: "the difficulty was to get hold of books. T...Edwin Whitlock n/aPOst Office Directory, 1867Print: Book
1900-1945'Forbes has three postcards; one marked "Try Singapore, then Batavia". This shows there must be internees in Batavia and gives me some hope that Nora may be there, althou...Thomas Kitching [unknown]postcardManuscript: postcard
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield...		Celia Burrow John MasefieldPosted MissingUnknown
1700-1799'Brought from the library for Miss Haynes the 4 [th] vol. of Mrs Godwin's Posthumous Works. It contains Letters, one on the Management of Infants, Several to Mr Johnson t...Joseph Hunter Mary WollstonecraftPosthumos Works, Vol IV: Letters and MiscellaneousPrint: 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
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Karoline BauerPosthumous Memoirs: From the GermanPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845: 'I began to write last saturday to thank you for all the delight, I had in Shelley [...] Bes...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Percy Bysshe ShelleyPosthumous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Posthumous works.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Mary WollstonecraftPosthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish 38th Book of Livy. read Post. Letters.'Mary Shelley Mary WollstonecraftPosthumous Works of the author of A Vindication of...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "Pot-Bouille"; "Pot-Bouille" made me laugh, there is one good character'Robert Louis Stevenson Emile ZolaPot-BouillePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Pot-Bouille. Pot-Bouille made me laugh, there is one good character.'Robert Louis Stevenson Emile ZolaPot-BouillePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I add a few words above all to talk to you about the book. I've read the novel for the third time, faithfully--from one end to the other. It's very good. It's very good!...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaPour NoemiPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's "Poverty" and a basic economics...questionaire respondent Benjamin Seebohm RowntreePoverty, A Study of Town LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon the correctness of the bases of the argument of the ...Members of the XII Book clubBenjamin Seebohm RowntreePoverty, A Study of Town Life Print: Book
1900-1945'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon the correctness of the bases of the argument of the ...John Ridges Benjamin Seebohm RowntreePoverty, A Study of Town Life Print: Book
1900-1945'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon the correctness of the bases of the argument of the ...Frederick J. Edminson Benjamin Seebohm RowntreePoverty, A Study of Town Life Print: Book


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