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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'The "Morning Chronicle" of this day announced the death of Henry Lord Brougham... The editor very kindly and very justly bewails his death.' [NB Brougham had not in fact...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The "Morning Chronicle" says the troops are to be withdrawn from France.'Benjamin Newton [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The "New Statesman" described the exponents of this policy as "Bitterenders"; their high priest was Lord Vansittart, whose propaganda seemed guaranteed to defeat the str...Vera Brittain New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The "North British Review"had a [italics] delicious [end italics] review of "Ruth" in it. Who the deuce could have written it? It is so truly religious, it makes me swea...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North British Review [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth']Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conve...Samuel Johnson George ColmanTwo Odes: To Obscurity and To OblivionPrint: Book
1700-1799'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conve...Samuel Johnson William MasonElfridaPrint: Book
1700-1799'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conve...James Boswell William MasonElfridaPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Penny Magazine" was published - I borrowed the first volume, and determined to make an effort to possess myself with the second; accordingly, with January 1833, I d...Christopher Thomson Charles KnightPenny MagazinePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus [?]PrometheusPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murray showed the verses to Rogers, Frere, and Stratford ...Samuel Rogers George Gordon Lord ByronSketch from Private LifeManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murray showed the verses to Rogers, Frere, and Stratford ...John Hookham Frere George Gordon Lord ByronSketch from Private LifeManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murray showed the verses to Rogers, Frere, and Stratford ...Stratford Canning George Gordon Lord ByronSketch from Private LifeManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The ... grandiloquent "education programme" we were able to satisfy sufficiently. A number of the "boys" were barely literate and Miss Nettleton could deal with the thre...Irene Nettleton Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'The ... grandiloquent "education programme" we were able to satisfy sufficiently. A number of the "boys" were barely literate and Miss Nettleton could deal with the thre...Irene Nettleton Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The 40th and 42nd Psalms spoke comfort to me this morning, and I may say they greatly expressed the language of my spirit'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'The Saturday will help the sale[,] I think, rather than not; and that is all that can be hoped...'Robert Louis Stevenson anon [Review of 'An Inland Voyage']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The account of the money market rather more favourable.'Joseph Jenkinson [n/a][The Morning Chronicle?]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The acute and learned Paley sums up in the following beautiful and energetic language the results of the minute and elegant investigations persued in his invaluable volu...William Buckland William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Affectionate Heart' 'Let the great man, his treasures possessing/...'Carey/Maingay groupJoseph Cottle'The Affectionate Heart'Print: UnknownUnknown
1600-1699'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended much.'Samuel Pepys Thomas MiddletonThe Spanish GypsyPrint: Book


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