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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
 
1900-1945'Merriman is a far cry from the Brontes. Both of course are good, but while they should be sipped with luxurious slowness in the winter evening, he may be read in a che...Clive Staples Lewis Henry Seton Merriman[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After lunch sat in study read paper and "The Sowers."'Verena Vera Pennefather Henry Seton MerrimanThe SowersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John ii...Ronald Storrs Henry Seton Merriman (pseud)The SowersPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be ho...Laetitia Pilkington Henry St John Bolingbroke[letters to Swift]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'On the 6th of March came out Lord Bolingbroke's works, published by Mr David Mallet. The wild and pernicious ravings, under the name of [italics] Philosophy [end italics...James Boswell Henry St John, 1st Viscount BolingbrokePhilosophical worksPrint: Book
'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR SIR, In the year 1763, being at London, I was car...Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke[alleged MS prose version of Pope's 'Essay on Man'...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:] 'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As far as I have seen, and I read at Ember the last vol...Thomas Edwards Henry St. John, Viscount BolingbrokeEssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.'George Eliot [pseud] Henry Thomas BuckleHistory of Civilization in EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Henry Thomas BuckleHistory of CivilisationPrint: Book
1900-1945One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The...Robert Stark Henry Thomas BuckleThe History of Civilization in EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am a good deal charmed by Jeffrey's letters; they have some of the taste of Lamb's. The life is dull, as Lord Cockburn cannot resist giving a long character of everyon...Emma Darwin Henry Thomas CockburnLife of Lord JeffreyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Stayed up reading H. V. Morton's Women of the Bible. Loved the chapter on 'Ruth, Martha and Mary'. Always inclined to Martha myself.'Vere Hodgson Henry Vollam MortonWomen of the BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'A controversial book by H. V. Morton, called: I, James Blunt, is dedicated to Wishful Thinkers who believe Britain is still an island, and that Russia will win the war...Vere Hodgson Henry Vollam MortonI, James BluntPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Florence De Quincey Henry W. Longfellow"Footprints of Angels" in The Boston Book, being S...Print: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact....Alice Foley Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book
1850-1899Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established custom [in 1880s-90s] ... by a very early age, Roy had l...James Elroy Flecker Henry Wadsworth LongfellowunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel...William Robertson Nicoll Henry Wadsworth LongfellowunknownPrint: Book
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1900-1945		[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and C...questionaire respondent Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book


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