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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		Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our...Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... [S. T. Coleridge's] copy of Quentin Durward includes a note that reveals his sense of public duty as an annotator [Coleridge takes issue with Scott's narrator's sug...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1900-1945'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show that an artistic conscience was not Byron’s strong poin...Arnold Bennett Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1800-1849'In 1823 I read in Scott?s novel of ?Quentin Durward? the prophetic words of Martivalle, ?Can I look forward without wonder and astonishment to the lot of a succeeding ge...Charles Knight Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1850-1899'Chess and "Quentin Durward".'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "Quentin Durward"'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1900-1945'My personal opinion of margarine has quite changed owing to the arrival of this questionnaire. My mother opened it by mistake, but finding it was not of a private nature... questionnaire about margarinePrint: Broadsheet, Questionnaire / survey sheet
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises...Elizabeth Missing Sewell MangallQuestionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'You will find in his pages ["Quiet Days in Spain"] the humours of starving workers of the soil, the vision among the mountains of an exulting ad spirit in a mighty bod...Joseph Conrad C.(Charles) Bogue LuffmanQuiet Days in SpainPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding H.A. VachellQuinneysPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These may or may not be related to the text. On various p...John Drummond Erskine HoraceQuinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et no...Print: Book
1600-1699"What originally made [Robert] Boyle so 'passionate a Friend to Reading,' he was wont to say, 'was the accidentall Perusall of Quintus Curtius.' This ancient romance of ...Robert Boyle Quintus CurtiusPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes how, long after enjoying the romance of Quintus Curtius when young, "[Robert] Boyle ... found himself suffering 'violent pains' in an inn; reading an o...Robert Boyle Quintus CurtiusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the r...Frances Stevenson Henryk SienkiewiczQuo VadisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ...R.L. Wild Henryk SienkiewiczQuo VadisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I liked "Engineer" very very much indeed! The idea, the execution, the style.[...] Shall I return the MS to you?'Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerR.H., InzynierManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene 22. II 1937
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (by F.E.P. in regretted absence of the Secretary) & approv...		Charles E. Stansfield Robert BrowningRabbi Ben EzraUnknown
1900-1945'Read Freeman on race and language, which holds well to date, especially in his negation of Austria and Turkey as possible empires. John v Arabic and Homer's "Odyssey" xi...Ronald Storrs Edward Augustus FreemanRace and LanguagePrint: Book
1850-1899'Meta & I have read this 1st vol of Rachel Gray - I think it very interesting'Elizabeth and Margaret (Meta) GaskellJulia KavanaghRachel GrayPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, 16 September 1839: 'Wish "Paracelsus" luck, by the way, at the Great St Leger -- for he, a horse, starts, I see by this m...Robert Browning racing programmePrint: Newspaper


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