Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   836 837 838 839 840  841  842 843 844 845 846   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I am reading Wordsworth with one of the younger classes but it is difficult to explain to people of purely Indian associations Wordsworth's love for nature.'Sir Walter Raleigh William Wordsworth[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read Helps's Realmah yesterday and the day before. [...] His essays are old-womanish. I have to "set a paper" on that book and am quite unprepared to ask a single ques...Sir Walter Raleigh Arthur HelpsRealmahPrint: Book
1850-1899'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus est...Sir Walter Raleigh Walt Whitman[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last...Sir Walter Raleigh Robert Louis StevensonThe Black ArrowPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][Life of Scott]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'Sir Walter Raleigh Samuel RogersPleasures of MemoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.'Sir Walter Raleigh PlatoBanquetPrint: Book
1850-1899'For a boy in a Lancashire mining village around 1880, where there were few books to read (other than twenty volumes of Methodist Conference minutes) W.H.G. Kingston's "D...William Lax W.H.G. KingstonDick Onslow Among the Red IndiansPrint: Book
1850-1899'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories ...children and mothersHesba StrettonJessica's First PrayerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories wi...children and mothersMrs O.F. WaltonChristie's Old OrganPrint: Book
1850-1899 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories w...children and mothersBrenda NewFroggy's Little BrotherPrint: Book
1850-1899 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories w...children and mothersAmy Le Feuvre[pious fiction]Print: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinThe Seven Lamps of ArchitecturePrint: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinThe Crown of Wild OlivesPrint: Book
1850-1899H. J. Jackson notes how annotations made in 1871 by Francis Palgrave in his copy of Alfred Russel Wallace, Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (1870) show de...Francis Palgrave Alfred Russel WallaceContributions to the Theory of Natural SelectionPrint: Book
1850-1899"Benjamin Dockray ... acquired a copy of Godwin's Memoirs [of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] secondhand in 1860 and settled down to read it for the f...Benjamin Dockray William GodwinMemoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Righ...Print: Book
1850-1899[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Christianity, diffusion of, assisted by the general scepticism of the pagan world combined with the necessity of some belief in the vulgar...Edward Davy Harrop Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899H. J. Jackson discusses Max Beerbohm's "doctored copy of Queen Victoria's More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands", to which he added "playfully-intended ...Max Beerbohm Queen VictoriaMore Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the High...Print: Book


Go to page: [1]   836 837 838 839 840  841  842 843 844 845 846   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design