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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'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 MorrisThe Story of the Unknown ChurchPrint: 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 Edward BellamyLooking BackwardsPrint: Book
1850-1899'These brave words of Scott remind me of the song in The Antiquary, which I have just re-read ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottThe AntiquaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'These drawings were placed on the hands of Mr C J Smith, with whom I had become acquainted through an advertisement.'John Cole J SmithadvertisementPrint: Advertisement
1900-1945'These included excerpts from the "News Chronicle" and "Manchester Guardian", which reported that a so-called "article" of mine on saturation bombing, supported by a sign...Vera Brittain Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'These last letters of Johnson are a treat to me. I enjoy poking out bits of news in them.'Emma Darwin Samuel JohnsonLetters of Samuel Johnson, LLD
1900-1945'These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war. The Battle of Britain is raging round us. Tonight continuous bombing and gunfire have shaken the house. A...Sidney Webb unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'These men, with several others whose curiosity began to be awakened by the tenor of our political gossip, united with myself in subscribing for a weekly newspaper. We wo...Thomas Carter and workmates at the tailors workshop [n/a]The NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'These things [proofs of "The Little Man"] are much too exquisite and poignant to be really satire even if you prefer to call them by that name.' Hence follow twelve lin...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Little Man and other satiresPrint: galley proofs
1700-1799'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will read them through? A man had better work his way be...Samuel Johnson [books of Voyages to the South Seas]Print: Book
1700-1799'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will read them through? A man had better work his way be...James Boswell [books of Voyages to the South Seas]Print: Book
1800-1849'These words in Eccles. struck me much. Ch. II v 21 & 22: "Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the Lord and abide in thy labour, for it is one easy thing in ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Ecclesiastes)Print: Book
1900-1945'They arrived late that evening bringing letters from home, and newspapers. As regards the world's news I confess that the first thing I turned to was the cricket reports...Frank Smythe newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'They being gone, I to my book again and made an end of Mr Hooker's life, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Isaak WaltonLife of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's W...Print: Book
1900-1945'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by the seventeenth-century philosopher, Thomas Hobbes....Vera Brittain Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1900-1945'They could no more accept it than they or any other powerful nation had ever accepted the teaching of his Master and Friend - for "to take him seriously", as H.G. Wells ...Vera Brittain Herbert George WellsThe Outline of HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'They give the picture of a consumate man, in whom the signal aptitude for detail does not detract from, but adds largely to the impression of his even & capacious greatn...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Arthur Wellesley, Duke of WellingtonDespatches of the Duke of WellingtonPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'They got dingy novels from the Caen Circg Library, & had no other books, I fancy. No wonder they "hate living abroad".''the Heald girls' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning, ...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1900-1945'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning,n...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book


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