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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
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and "the Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothersRudyard KiplingPuck of Pook's HillPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh ...Edward Morgan Forster Rudyard KiplingPuck of Pook's HillPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Rudyard KiplingPuck of Pook's HillPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Rudyard KiplingPuck of Pook’s Hill Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
    Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

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5. H. M Wallis then gav...		Henry Marriage Wallis Rudyard KiplingPuck’s SongUnknown
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ...Percy Wall PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to George du Maurier, 2 March 1887: "I have guessed from one or two stray copies of Punch that have fallen under my eye, that you have been at Brighton ..."Henry James PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'.. there is a picture in Punch and it is a man beating a great many drums ...'Robert Louis Stevenson PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'And I saw a Punch which I thought I would like so much....there was one queer picture in Mr Punch which I must tell you about'.Robert Louis Stevenson PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In reply to Mr. Archer?s letter, the authors? procedure, as regards the year 1860, was this. They practically read through the whole of Punch for that year, and chose a...Arnold Bennett PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Took a ramble, a Cup of Coffee at Purcell's. A look at the last number of Punch in the Mechanics'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Punch's Almanack was published this morning. I purchased a copy. The engravings are very creditably executed, but there is an apparent want of originality throughout. ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I much enjoy. I see from "Nature Notes" that yesterday ...Edward Morgan Forster PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900: 'Thank you so much for sending the Punches. They are a public blessing to the staircase!'Undergraduates at King's College, Cambridge PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I stayed behind in the waiting-room, reading a favourable review in "Punch" of Phyllis Bentley's newly published novel , "Inheritance", which Winifred had voted "magnifi...Vera Brittain PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Punch very fair & should improve now its competitors have been obliged to abandon the field'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'It came on to rain very fast this evening, however I went to the Mechanics & read the papers very little however in them just now. Punch had a cartoon representing Macph...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical


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