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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 sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant was a small chap, and all night was so tireless that I thought of Alan Breck Stewart in Kidnapped.'Reginald Hugh Kiernan Robert Louis StevensonKidnappedPrint: Book
1800-1849'The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Watt's "Lyric Poems" which then came first into my hand...Thomas Carter Isaac WattsHorae Lyricae, Poems Chiefly of the Lyric KindPrint: Book
1700-1799'The sermon that we read was on the Passion and even finer than the last'.Eugenia Wynne and others [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The Sermon was read this evening: very fine but the praises of the king are too strong'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The shock last night when Ian was cold and unenthusiastic about the first bit of the book which I'd managed to write. I burnt it. I... hoped he would stop me... He expla...Ian Henderson Antonia White[MS fiction]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The short and simple annals of the poor, which have lately poured in such profusion from the Scottish press, I thought at first exquisitely beautiful and pathetic, and t...Eleanor Anne Porden John GaltAnnals of the ParishPrint: Book
1900-1945'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'Elizabeth Bowen E.M. ForsterCelestial Omnibus, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'Elizabeth Bowen Richard MiddletonGhost Ship, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Matthew PriorAlma; or, The Progress of the MindPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale John Dryden'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting'Print: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Abraham CowleyLife and FamePrint: Book
1900-1945'The single bed proved very unsuitable for Joseph Conrad, because apart from its legitimate purpose as a resting place, his bed had to be hospitable to a heap of books, a...Joseph Conrad unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown, poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown, poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...John Keats[unknown, poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...David Herbert Lawrence[unknown, poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...Leo Tolstoy[unknown]Print: Book


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