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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
 
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bi...Virginia Woolf New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars and [italics] cellae [end italics], their priests' s...Mary Augusta Ward [Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians]Print: Book
1800-1849'The papers are sent to me very regularly by the kind Shuldhams, and I read them with indescribable eagerness; but they take away my spirits for the rest of the day. The ...Sarah Harriet Burney [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I like - I admire the Italian translation of the Gospels & Psalms, which are what I have hitherto read. If the Prophetical books are not so well rendered, I will abide b...Sarah Harriet Burney [Gospels and Psalms]Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Hertford, 30 January 1833: 'Are you fond of a bit of superstition? One day last week, at A. Baring's, I told them at breakfast that I dreamt...John Wilson Croker report of death of Lord ExmouthPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Thanks for the newspapers and for having marked them. Baildon has rather got it; I cannot but feel sympathy with the reviewer.'Robert Louis Stevenson The Scotsman/Edinburgh CourantPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was much surprised at [what] Charteris said of John Stuart Mill. "Seemed to have been kind and benevolent" is used where, for any one else, he would have said '"was" k...Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh CourantPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 16 March 1831: 'I had read the Report of your speech in the newspapers; and I read it again last night with great satisfa...Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington Report on John Wilson Croker's speech on the first...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Hertford, 30 January 1833: 'Are you fond of a bit of superstition? One day last week, at A. Baring's, I told them at breakfast that I dreamt...John Wilson Croker and others at home of A. Baring Death reportsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Disraeli's, Tulloch's and Greyfriars' addresses were all three excellent; Disraeli's brilliant.'Robert Louis Stevenson newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open Dante or think of him without a shudder -- the cause being I think partly the...Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I see the Nineteenth Century has a full list each month of its articles and contributors, which is put in the windows and on the counters of the booksellers.' Oscar Wilde Nineteenth CenturyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-194524 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'Virginia Woolf newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-194524 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'Lytton Strachey newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-194527 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2 days ago at Lane End [...] She was in her 91st year. A more composed, & outwar...Virginia Woolf notice of death of Sarah Emily DuckworthPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windows of the principal booksellers - there was a kind o...Thomas Carlyle Examiner (Newspaper Chat section)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I was very much obliged by the Scotsman you sent me to Foley Place, and the criticism of Meister contained in it - shallow and narrow enough it is true, but favourable a...Thomas Carlyle The ScotmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899The circulating record of the Cardigan Book Society suggests that this reader read the work, as the "Remarks" section of the record is filled in (although the remarks are...Mrs Miles Temple BarPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have heard nothing more; so it may be untrue.'Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper


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