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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'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgri...mother of Joseph Wright Friedrich KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Mourner' 'The following [erased] pensive lines will accord with the sympathies of the feeling heart: the parent sinks under the loss of a beloved husband and...Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxAmelia OpieThe Mourner: Another on the same subjectUnknown
1900-1945'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the pe...Ralph Glasser Luigi Illica[libretto of 'La Boheme]Print: Book
1900-1945'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the pe...Ralph Glasser Henry MurgerScenes de la Vie de BohemePrint: Book
1900-1945'The N.A. is not advocating immediately practical ideas. It is preparing opinion for ideas which will in future be practical. I think it is a devilish good paper. Read...Arnold Bennett unknownreview of 'The Real India'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and all we have about is habits is a note by the bird collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in his third volume (O...William Henry Hudson Edmund SelousBirdwatchingPrint: Book
1900-1945'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and all we have about is habits is a note by the bird collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in his third volume (O...William Henry Hudson Wadyslaw TaczanowskiOrnithologie du PérouPrint: Book
1900-1945'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and all we have about is habits is a note by the bird collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in his third volume (O...William Henry Hudson A. B. R. Trevor-BattyePictures in ProsePrint: Book
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1800-1849		'The natural theology of Dr. Paley is so generally recommended and read in this University, that I need not here insist either on the scope or the utility of the argument...John Kidd William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Nature of Poetry. C.I. Evans brought before us the recent book by Henry Newbolt dealing with 'The Nature of Poetry' & gave as the final requisite [underlined] Rhyth...Charles Evans Henry Newbolt[writings on Nature of poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Nature of Poetry. C.I. Evans brought before us the recent book by Henry Newbolt dealing with 'The Nature of Poetry' & gave as the final requisite [underlined] Rhyth...Alfred Rawlings Thomas Walls Dutton[writings on Nature of poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ...Caroline Clive George SandLa Mare au DiablePrint: Book
1800-1849'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ...Caroline Clive Jules SandeauLa Chasse au RomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ...Caroline Clive Lord MahonThe Life of Louis, Prince of Conde, Surnamed the G...Print: Book
1800-1849'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ...Caroline Clive Memoirs of a MissionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The new edition of the "Island Ph[arisee]" arrived during the crisis of horrors [severe gout and the debilitating effects of the then new colchicine treatment] and I tac...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Island PhariseesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The new faculty had to be fed, however, and my eye fastened on all printed matter. I read passages in the Daily Chronicle which had just replaced the Daily Mail in our h...Richard Church The Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The New M is a magnificent work.'Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Newcomes'Sarah Good William ThackerayThe Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The news of Lord Kitchener's death reached us while we were at Hinges. Someone walked into our billet and said they had just heard Kitchener was dead. "Another rum...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Le MatinPrint: Newspaper


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