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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 only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.' [n/a]New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.' [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The only real seizable fault that I can find in Kipps is the engagement to Helen, which entirely failed to convince me. . . . After agreeing with myself that I read th...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsKippsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The only social event she goes to is the Sunday afternoon tea run by her chapel. Again she has not made many friends here, but she seems to enjoy going. Apart from that,...Molly Charles DickensA tale of two citiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Europe with a younger and more robust Egeria. I meant to...Ford Madox Ford [unknown]review of Violet Hunt's 'The Flurried Years' in th...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'Mary Shelley CiceroPro Roscio ComoedoPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'Mary Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the Accession of James I t...Print: Book
1900-1945'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering me a bit [discusses text further, drawing comparisons...Edward Morgan Forster Van Wyck BrooksThe Ordeal of Mark TwainPrint: Book
1800-1849'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a n...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von Goetheprivate letterManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'The other book — which I am denying myself to write to YOU, yes YOU of all people — is from the library by Blackwood called "Uncle Paul". Oh, I have never read anythin...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon BlackwoodThe Education of Uncle PaulPrint: Book
1850-1899'The other day for a treat Charlie got me La Petite Comtesse to read. I never was more delighted with any story. It is so beautifully and pathetically written, but so s...Katey Dickens Feuillet OctaveLa Petite ComtessePrint: Book
1850-1899'The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Addington SymondsunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The other day I read an article by Lady Roberts, quite a good one- but it does not help to demand that everybody should his share in the war. You have got to tell people...Lady RobertsunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The other day I took up "Yvette". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!' Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantYvette and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The other day some people from “The Gentlewoman” came to interview me and wished to put an account if me into their paper. I hate being public property and so refused t...Cornelia Sorabji The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The other night I sat up till four o'clock, reading Matthew Lewis's "Monk". It is the most stupid & villainous novel that I have read for a great while. Considerable por...Thomas Carlyle Matthew LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1900-1945'The others slept while I wrote and read again with pleasure and admiration "Sinister Street, [Vol] II". A glorious promise if only that youth is not murdered in the Aege...Ronald Storrs Compton MackenzieSinister Street, vol. 2Print: Book
1850-1899'The Ovens & Murray Advertiser appeared to day & made me the [?]. It entirely exonerated me from the charges preferred against me in its last Issue & gave me credit for b...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens & Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Ovens & Murray advertiser in its impression of this day announced Mr Cameron to be the successful candidate by a majority of upwards of [?] over his opponents.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [italics] are [end italics] opened; but not considered o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper


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