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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 marvelled that "The Road to Wigan Pier", to me naive, had made such a stir. I could think of nothing in it that was not obvious, but when I said so in the Cole Group i...Ralph Glasser George OrwellRoad to Wigan Pier, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley George OrwellRoad to Wigan Pier, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'My literature has been “The Pit”, Frank Norris’s wheat hoarding story, and the two books of riff-raff, very tangy, cynical and amusing, by O. Henry. One story, "Roads of...Edmund Blunden O. Henry (pseud)Roads of DestinyPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full of wit and fancy and most admirably written. I shou...Arnold Bennett H Hamer [anon]Roasted Angels
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --except Rob Roy.'George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had r...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.'William Robertson Nicoll Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have heard, too, that several workmen in shops adjacent to Sutherland's library arranged with him for a reading of "The Heart of Midlothian" and "Rob Roy", one of the ...workmenWalter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarke & 1st vol of Rob. Roy.'Mary Shelley Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Rob. Roy'Mary Shelley Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday. Feb 6th. Look at Work. Read Rob Roy.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday. Feb 7th. [...] Finish Rob Roy.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'I agree that Caroline [in Edgeworth's Patronage] is perfection. I admit that sh...Elizabeth Barrett Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Rob Roy'Mary Shelley Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Was at home in the evening. Read a Portion of Rob Roy to Polly.'John Buckley Castieau Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Rob Roy in the evening.'John Buckley Castieau Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stopped at Home in the evening and read Rob Roy to Polly.'John Buckley Castieau Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourse...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'(1) I have started — don't be surprised — "Rob Roy", which I suppose you have read long ago. I really don't know how I came to open it: I was looking for a book in the...Clive Staples Lewis Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book


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