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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'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithRhoda FlemingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Transcribe Peacocks poem'Mary Shelley Thomas Love PeacockRhododaphne; or, the Thessalian SpellPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fit i) [i.e. section 1] respectively'.Charles Stansfield Geoffrey ChaucerRhyme of Sir ThopasPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley] 'Reads the ancient mariner to us'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRhyme of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John KenyonRhymed Plea for TolerancePrint: Book
1900-1945'The letter began with a keen criticism of Robert Service's "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man", which had just been sent out to him from England. He particularly resented, it s...Victor unknown Robert ServiceRhymes of a Red Cross ManPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".'John Frederick William Dunn Robert W. ServiceRhymes of a Red Cross ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have only just returned to town, and found the Rhyming Chronicle [title underlined]. Your cousin must be worth knowing: there are some very charming things in her book...Alfred Tennyson Jean IngelowRhyming chronicle of incidents and feelingsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Niccolo FortiguerraRicciardettoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Niccolo FortiguerraRicciardettoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'Mary Shelley Niccolo FortiguerraRicciardettoPrint: Book
1900-1945'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rugs in the deck house on a "wild grey day", and they m...Pauline Smith Arnold BennettRiceyman StepsPrint: Book, proofs
1900-1945 'Riceyman Steps' had brought him new prestige; it was read by lords and barbers, and Conrad was reported to say that it showed 'Bennett victorious'.Joseph Conrad Arnold BennettRiceyman StepsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am wholly delighted with your "R.[iceyman] S.[teps]. Wholly. You will give me credit for not having missed any special gems but it is the whole achievement as I went f...Joseph Conrad Enoch Arnold BennettRiceyman StepsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		Helen Rawlings Arnold BennettRiceyman StepsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing bu...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithRichard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Rich...Katherine Evans George MeredithRichard FeverelPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death bores through the King's crowns - and 'farewell King...John Ruskin William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Reading aloud meant group recitation, which Dylan hated. Chanting a poem in unison one afternoon, he put his hands over his ears and burst out, 'I can't stand it, I can'...Dylan Thomas William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book


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