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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 favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey [unknown]Edith HeronPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey [n/a]Boys of EnglandPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey Bracebridge HemyngJack HarkawayPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Fickleness of Love'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].Mary Groom Thomas Moore'The Fickleness of Love'Unknown
1900-1945'The Financial Statement was read & approved'Howard R. Smith Edith Smith[financial statement of XII Book Club]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The financial statement was read showing a balance in hand of 11/ 3 1/2'Edith Smith Edith Smith[financial statement of XII Book Club]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The finishing of the first volume of Gibbon is all I have been able to accomplish comfortably from my last memoranda. Every morning this week has been taken up in copyin...William Upcott Edward GibbonMiscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'The first 60 pages [of "Summer"] might well have been written with one of those quill feathers one finds lying on a quiet field on a hot brooding summer day.' [Hence fol...Joseph Conrad Edith WhartonSummerPrint: Book
1800-1849'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of th...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of th...Thomas Carlyle William Rowe Lyall[review in the Quarterly Review of Dugald Stewart'...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a devout Evangelical herself, she reared him in her faith...Wilfred Owen BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a devout Evangelical herself, she reared him in her faith...Wilfred Owen [Scripture Union notes on the Bible]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The first books which are now usually put into the hands of a child are Mrs. Barbauld's "Lessons"; they are by far the best books of the kind that have ever appeared.' (...Maria Edgeworth Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin)Early Lessons for ChildrenPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first business of the morning being over [rolling up hammocks], the men break into groups or read. Many a one, to our astonishment, took his Bible and began reading ...prisoners on board the 'Defence' hulk [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'The first day before leaving home I must also describe if I can. It was one of the most interesting nature. In the first place I had [underline] all [end underline] the ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'The first entire work that I read in defence of revealed religion, was Archdeacon Paley's View of the Evidences of Christianity. This very excellent work I perhaps neve...James Lackington William PaleyView of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first imaginative work by an Englishman ... [Joseph Conrad] read was Nicholas Nickleby (1839).'Joseph Conrad Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The first instalment of your story in the PMM ["Pall Mall Magazine"] opens the year brilliantly. How good you are in presenting the human interest of a story in terms of...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells The War in the AirPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The first meeting after the formation of the [Metaphysical] Society took place at the Deanery, Westminster, June 2nd, 1869, under the presidency of Sir John Lubbock, whe...Mr Knowles Alfred TennysonThe Higher PantheismUnknown
1850-1899'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and who sent back to him at once a letter of four pages sa...William Ewart Gladstone Margaret OliphantMakers of VenicePrint: Book


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