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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'The Athenaeum was only a confused intelligence in revolt against Saintsbury's exaggerations ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Tyas Cook[review in Athenaeum]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Athenaeum was only a confused intelligence in revolt against Saintsbury's exaggerations ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George Saintsbury[review in Pall Mall Gazette]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The attact [sic] upon you in the last Edin. Review was too palpably malevolent to produce any bad effect on the public feeling with regard to you, and it was (besides be...James Hogg [review in the Edinburgh Review of Southey's 'Carm...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1700-1799'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had marked the passages with a black lead pencil, the tr...Samuel Johnson [unknown][sources for his Dictionary]Print: Book
1850-1899'The authorship of these beautiful verses has been most truculently fought about; but whoever wrote them (and it seems as if this Logan had) they are lovely. What time...Robert Louis Stevenson Michael BruceOde to the CuckooPrint: Book
1900-1945'The B-Block strip of grass between the high wall and the passage is now open. It is to be a haven of peace for readers and others. There is to be no talking. So there is...Thomas Kitching [unknown][notice]Unknown
1700-1799'The ballad of Hardyknute has no great merit, if it be really ancient. People talk of nature. But mere obvious nature may be exhibited with very little power of mind.' ...Samuel Johnson Elizabeth, Lady WardlawHardyknutePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "The Tatler", turning over the pages furtively in the ...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The SketchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "The Tatler", turning over the pages furtively in the ...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Bell of St Paul's'Sarah Good Walter BesantThe Bell of St Paul'sPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her...Chaim Bermant n/aThe BeanoPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her...Chaim Bermant Beatrix Potter[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her...Chaim Bermant n/aThe Glasgow HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her...Chaim Bermant n/aThe Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The best account I have read of America, as it now is, I have found in a book written by H. Tudor, Esq. (a townsman of my own whom I knew very well in his early life, so...Barbara Hofland H. TudorunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenious production - characterised by acuteness and origi...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays Moral, Political and LiteraryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The best of the present French novelists seems to me, incomparably, Daudet. Les Rois en Exil comes very near to being a masterpiece.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alphonse DaudetLes Rois en ExilPrint: Book


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