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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
 
1850-1899'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1900-1945'The play arrived yesterday and I read it in the evening (the proper time for plays) with the greatest appreciation.' [...] Some day — if you permit me — I'll send you th...Joseph Conrad Allan Monkhouse Print: Book, playscript
1900-1945'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audience of Marguerite Sheldon and Knoblock's agent Miss Ka...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettMilestonesManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The play [Becket] is so accurate a representation of the personages and of the time, that J. R. Green said that all his researches into the annals of the twelfth century...J. R. Green Alfred TennysonBecketPrint: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Samuel Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Anne Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Anne Romilly Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1700-1799'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain shall we look for the [italics] lucidus ordo [end ital...Samuel Johnson James MacPherson'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossi...Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron George Bernard Shaw[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Henrik Ibsen[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Karl Marx[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Henri MurgerScenes de la BohemePrint: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ectsasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Leo Tolstoy[unknown]Print: 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'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.John Betjeman Edgar Allan Poe Print: Book
1900-1945'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.John Betjeman Thomas Campbell Print: Book
1800-1849'The poorest review of any book that I have yet met in the Edinburgh is that of Goethe.'Benjamin Newton n/aEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Portsmouth paper gave a melancholy history of a poor Mad Woman, escaped from Confinement, who said her Husband & Daughter of the Name of Payne lived at Ashford in Ke...Jane Austen Hampshire TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Presbyterian Minister came and read prayers to the prisoners.'anon prayersPrint: Unknown


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