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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'The newspaper praises it [loaf made of maize flour and rice]: "Bread reappears in Syonan. The doctors are enthusiastic about it; it is more palatable and equally nourish...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The newspaper reports that the so-clever Nipponese scientists are not only going to eradicate venereal disease, but also discover its causes.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The newspaper today took my breath away. Such a landslide I had not expected. Yesterday morning, reading the "Telegraph" I felt a stalemate possible, or a small Tory La... [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The newspapers amuse us here immensely — we read of the Ger[mans] being driven back by our chaps — in reality he is walking away of his own free will, as slowly...Henry William Williamson [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that it would appear from the conduct of the House as if...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The newspapers having transferred their puffs from "Trevelyan" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and almost regret my sincerity in taking notice of them...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper advertisements for Jane Scott's Trevely...Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1700-1799'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (the 2 first of w'ch I had read before we left Chiche...John Marsh Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (the 2 first of w'ch I had read before we left Chiche...John Marsh George KeateSketches from nature, taken and coloured on a jour...Print: Book
1900-1945'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][citation for bravery]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflecting on the Dean for refusing the cathedral for the ...John Marsh [n/a]Star, ThePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The night before the coming of the first parcel, I was reading the same news in the Aber papers: how that first this one and then that one had received parcels of cigare...E. C. Benson Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The night before we left [Montpellier]was one of the worst I have ever spent. Joseph Conrad was still handicapped by having his right hand in bandages, the gout had twis...Joseph Conrad  
1900-1945'The note announced, a little defiantly, that the writer had read, "with the utmost pleasure," my novel "The Dark Tide", and asked me in return to accept "the enclosed" -...Vera BrittainThe Dark TidePrint: Book
1850-1899'The note by my father, that originally headed his blank verse translation from the Iliad beginning 'He ceased, and sea-like roar'd the Trojan host, 'ran: "Some, an...Alfred Tennyson Sir John Herschel'Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter ...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The novel --Good! Très fort!! As Pinker could not have done much with it before Easter I held it up here for a second reading.'Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonThe Novel of George (published as The Pyramid)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbey now - or if she did I'd have none of her'.Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of players", and once every year I peru...James Glass Bertram John GaltSir Andrew WylliePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of players", and once every year I peru...James Glass Bertram John GaltAnnals of the ParishPrint: Book
1800-1849'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of the players", and once every year I ...James Glass Bertram John GaltLives of the playersPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece...Amelia Opie Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book


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