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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
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th...George Howell Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEvangelinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.Hilary Spalding Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1850-1899?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence, being the first book I bought for myself. It empti...Thomas Burt Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading Longfellow's Hiawatha'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesHenry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer?s Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds see...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPsalm of LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite...Edwin Muir Henry Wadsworth LongfellowExcelsiorPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEvangelinePrint: Book
1850-1899"Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden legend, beginning 'It is Lucifer, son of the air,' and so on. 'Since God put him there, he is God's min...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Golden LegendPrint: Book
1850-189919 February 1854: 'After breakfast I walked with my boys [i.e. two of her sons] to Trinity College [Cambridge]. They took me through the Great Court [...] and thence i...Lady Charlotte Guest Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'Thank you, my dear cousin, for Mr Longfellow's verses -- a [italics]whole book[end italics] of which I never saw b...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Wadsworth LongfellowunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Golden LegendPrint: Book
1900-1945'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.John Betjeman Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book
1900-1945'Only recently I discovered its origin in Longfellow's "New England Tragedies", read and re-read during my childhood when Longfellow and Matthew Arnold were the only poet...Vera Brittain Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNew England TragediesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Henry Wadsworth Longfellow'The Jew's Tale', from Tales of a Wayside InnUnknown
1900-1945‘Have been to [Tynecastle] School again. Am going to do "Hiawatha" with them now.’Wilfred Owen Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Song of HiawathaPrint: Book


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