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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
 
1800-1849'look over Roderick - very unwell'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyRoderick; the last of the GothsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The literary orderly has been quoting Rodney Stone outside! I said I would tell the author.'Arthur Conan DoyleRodney StonePrint: Book
1900-1945'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of Corneille I've struck [...] Antiochus and Seleucus ...Edward Morgan Forster Pierre CorneilleRodogunePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that occu...Benedict Nicolson Virginia WoolfRoger FryPrint: Book
1900-1945[Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also revered - "To the Lighthouse" above all - even if so...Rosamond Lehmann Virginia WoolfRoger Fry: A BiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan [n/a]Roget's ThesaurusPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Hugh WalpoleRogue HerriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'From Rokeby' 'The tear that down childhood's cheek...' [4lines]member of Carey/Maingay groupWalter ScottRokeby
1800-1849'I received Walter Scott's Rokeby. I gazed at it with a transport of impatience, and began reading it in bed. I am already in the first canto: - my soul has glowed with w...Charlotte Bury Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I derived a three fold Pleasure from the Receipt of Rokeby, first from the book itself, the Article, the thing sold and bought, & for this I know how much I am indebted ...George Crabbe Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverle...James Mackintosh Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from “Rokesby” (for Rokeby), beginning 'When lovers meet in adverse hour/ Tis like a sun g...Catherine Austen Walter ScottRokebyUnknown
1800-1849'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Walter ScottRokeby; a poemPrint: Book
1800-1849'go to the British Museum - see all the fine things - ores, fossils, statues, divine &c &c. - return - read Rokeby - go upstairs to talk with S. - read and finish Rokeby'...Mary Godwin Walter ScottRokeby; a poemPrint: Book
1900-1945'6th February, Sunday. We paid a visit to the church. As usual, it being a familiar object to me, I have taken little notice of it, and never been inside it. It is o...Gerald Moore Roll of Honour of soldiers killed in the First Wor...Print: Book, Plaque
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Bruce Dilks Jacob AbbottRollo at WorkPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41
F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Jacob AbbottRollo at Work [The chapter ‘Labor Lost’]Print: Book
1850-1899'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'John Ruskin [unknown]Roma SotterneaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late sorrow'John Ruskin [unknown]Roman de la rose [?]Print: Book


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