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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'There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, "Women have not a word to say in politics".'Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the police, that was just their name. They specialised in d...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Police NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the police, that was just their name. They specialised in d...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Police BudgetPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There was unpleasant news in the paper. The Bolsheviks have made peace with the Central Powers and so now all Russia is at peace, and a regular war flame is running thro...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'There was, for instance, a writer on prophecy called Jukes, of whose works each of my parents was inordinately fond, and I was early set to read Jukes aloud to them. I d...Edmund Gosse Andrew John JukesThe law of the offerings in LeviticusPrint: Book
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord John Russell George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord Holland George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord Rancliffe George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'There were few books at home when [Harry Burton] was a boy, but one of them was "Don Juan". He read it before he was eleven - through a prepubescent frame, of course. "I...Harry Burton George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1850-1899'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained nothing but accounts of meetings and conferences, an...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Christian WorldPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in King Lear. For if bad Edmund was a Natural Son, presum...Gwen Raverat William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1900-1945'There [living in a better area than previously, after his reformation from being a gambling addict], in his practical fashion, he [Glasser's father] looked after himself...Mr Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'There's a bliss beyond all the Minstrel has told/...' ['Light of the Haram' ll. 648-655]Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear Dr Johnson I beleive [sic] I have dealt more in Noti...Jane Austen Samuel JohnsonLetter to Boswell, 4 July 1774Print: Book
1900-1945'There, on warm weekend days, I would sit and read in a peaceful arbour where trees and shrubbery muffled the noise of traffic'Ralph Glasser  Print: Book
1850-1899'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice those ideas on the teaching of the Bible which she ha...Janet Ward GospelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice those ideas on the teaching of the Bible which she ha...Mary Augusta Ward GospelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry FieldingunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Sir Thomas More's "Utopia", closely followed by the pr...Joseph Stamper Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Sir Thomas More's "Utopia", closely followed by the pr...Joseph Stamper William Morris[prose works]Print: Book


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