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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 best trumpet that I can suggest is to read Thomas Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. Sick as I am of reading anything in which so much as Burns’s name appears, I was really e...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas CarlyleEssay on Burns Print: Book
1600-1699'The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city and suburbs, which makes us all sad.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1700-1799'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason to believe that, my Lord. Are we to think Pope was ...Jonathan Shipley Horace Print: Book
1700-1799'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason to believe that, my Lord. Are we to think Pope was ...Samuel Johnson Edward Young Print: Book
1900-1945'The blessed vol: ["The Fifth Queen"] arrived about 4 days ago - or is it a week? I've read it twice - thats all.[...] Here I'll add one more phrase bearing upon the most...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Fifth Queen and how she came to court Print: Book
1900-1945'The book ("Maison du Peché") has arrived and is now half read. Without going further my verdict is that it is good , but is not "fort".' Thence follows five lines of m...Joseph Conrad Marcelle TinayreLa Maison du PechéPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book arrived by the first post.[...] [it] might be described as an appalling indictment of the middle classes--[...] But in the introspective silence that came over...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA CommentaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book Grey and Scarlet is wonderful. Letters of Army Nurses from all over the world. Thousands of people can rise to the greatest heights of heroism.'Vere Hodgson Ada HarrisonGrey and Scarlet: Letters from the War Areas by Ar...Print: Book
1900-1945'The book has arrived too. It was very kind of you to think of sending it to me. As everything that Professor [William] James ever wrote it's most suggestive and interest...Joseph Conrad William JamesMemories and StudiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christian charity...'Sarah Harriet Burney Hester Lynch PiozziObservations and Reflections Made in the Course of...Print: Book
1800-1849'The book of my boyhood was, however, the "Pilgrim's Progress", a beautiful edition of which was given me by a paternal uncle. I used to read it from morning to night, ...John Leatherland John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'the book that featured most prominently in [Joseph Greenwood's] memoirs was a cheap edition of Robinson Crusoe. "To me Daniel Defoe's book was a wonderful thing, it open...Joseph Greenwood Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'The book that influenced me most in this direction was Sylvanus Stall's, What a Young Man Ought to Know, which I accepted as the guiding testament of youth in all...Vero Walter Garratt Sylvanus StallWhat a Young Man Ought to KnowPrint: Book
1700-1799'the book that prompted [Mary Wollstonecraft's] fullest comment was Rousseau's "Emile". It was bound to appeal to her; it was a treatise on education, a metaphysical essa...Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1900-1945'The book which I had ordered had arrived and gives me the same exciting feeling when I glance into it - I have told you before how I want you to read ?Dodsworth?, and n...Lesley Edna Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is quite a document on Spain to day and apparently wri...Winifred Agnes Moore Margaret SteenMatadorPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book you sent me was a great pleasure to me. Some of the ships I knew personally.'Joseph Conrad Basil LubbockThe Colonial ClippersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. "Mamma and I", he w...Catherine Gladstone Mary Augusta WardRobert ElsmerePrint: Book
1850-1899'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. "Mamma and I", he w...William Gladstone Mary Augusta WardRobert ElsmerePrint: Book
1850-1899'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] profoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. "Mamma and I", he ...William Gladstone Thucydides Print: Book


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