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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'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

The following essays wer...		Mary Pollard Reginald H. RobsonRupert BrookeManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

The following essays wer...		Reginald H. Robson R. H. RobsonRupert BrookeUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 July 1843: 'I am reading William Howitt's Germany with a good deal of interest.'Elizabeth Barrett William HowittRural and Domestic Life of GermanyPrint: Book
1700-1799'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inquired into but have taken nothing by way of Extract,...George Crabbe William MarshallRural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Includ...Print: Book
1900-1945‘ … thank you immensely for "Friends" [W. W. Gibson], an unforgettable book … My town-pride received a shock yesterday—and my pocket. Cridland and I went to Salisbury...Ivor Bertie Gurney William CobbettRural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Susse...Print: Book
1900-1945‘Distant from us by 300 yards … snipers were continually firing, and rockets … lit up the night outside … we had two days like that, and played Auction Bridge, talked...Ivor Bertie Gurney William CobbettRural Rides in the counties of Surrey, Kent, Susse...Print: Book
1900-1945'I'm interested in Russia and want to know all about socialism. (Russia, Friend or Foe: Sloan)'Pat SloanRussia, Friend or FoePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you very much for sending me your contribution towards the solution of the great problem [Polish independence].[...] Your arguments and your conclusions seem to me...Joseph Conrad Roman DmowskiRussian Realities and Problems (chapter) or Proble...Print: Book, Pamphlet, see additional comment, identity of text uncertain
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christabel.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthRuthUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 12 January 1853, regarding timings of publications of her and Gaskell's new works: ' ... I had felt and expressed to Mr Smith -- re...Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth GaskellRuthPrint: Book
1800-1849'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high art again, and not help to sink us in the subjectiv...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth GaskellRuthPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am so glad you liked 'Ruth'. I was so anxious about her, and took so much pains over writing it, that I lost my own power of judging, and could not tell whether I had ...R. Monckton Milnes Elizabeth GaskellRuthPrint: Book
1850-1899'How I hate Thackeray's women. He makes Mrs Pen and Laura behave exactly like the women in ''Ruth'' who are so detestable, and Thackeray thinks it quite right.'Emma Darwin William Makepeace ThackerayRuthPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, regarding preparations for publication of Villette, 12 January 1853:

'I had felt, and expressed, to Mr Smith [publis...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth GaskellRuth (volume 1)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'.George Eliot [pseud] Victor HugoRuy BlasPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Boswell to Johnson] Of the modern Frisick, or what is spoken by the boors at this day, I have procured a specimen. It is [italics] Gisbert Japix's Rymelerie [end italic...James Boswell Gisbert JapixRymeleriePrint: Book
1800-1849'On 7 Aug. 1805 the Wordsworths told Lady Beaumont that "We have just read a poem called the Sabbath written by a very good man in a truly christian spirit ... "'Wordsworth FamilyJames GrahameSabbath, TheUnknown
1800-1849'I received yours yesternight with the poem of [italics] the Sabbath [end italics], a good part of which I have already perused and have concluded that the Cameronian hat...James Hogg James GrahameSabbath, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of the song of Milton, "Sabrina fair" has brought back...George Gordon Lord Byron John MiltonSabrina FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".'George Eliot [pseud.] Anna JamesonSacred and Legendary ArtPrint: Book


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