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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
 
1700-1799'They have what they call the [italics] sublime [italics], that is, a style proper for poetry, and which is the exact Scripture style. I believe you would be pleased to s...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Ibrahim PashaTurkish VersesManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'they lent me Mr Gee's booke concerninge prayer; he was minister at Eccleston. And upon the 15th day, Tusday, I was readinge in his booke, and in consideracion of the man...Roger Lowe Edward GeeA Treatise of Prayer and of Divine Providence as r...Print: Book
1700-1799'They likewise read, occasionally, a variety of other books unconnected with such subjects [religion]... Although the parish consists wholly of the poorer ranks of societ...the people of Auchterderran, Fife [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not only discuss, for he pointed out to her, "with a mi...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Walter ScottLord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not only discuss, for he pointed out to her, "with a mi...George Gordon, Lord Byron Walter ScottLord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849'They sin who tell us Love candie/...' [16 lines] 'Southey'Julia Robert SoutheyThe Curse of Kehama OR 'Love'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'They tell us of an Indian tree/...'Margaret Maingay [?] Thomas Moore'They Tell us of An Indian Tree' OR 'To My Mother'Print: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'They used to read to each other when they had written so much. Their father never knew a word about it.'the Bronte sisters Bronte[works by all three sisters]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'They would talk French, eat in French restaurants, read French newspapers and visit the British Museum together.'Arnold Bennett [French newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'They [newly married Lord and Lady Byron] read books together, and discussed them; Scott's Lord of the Isles was sent to Byron by [John] Murray [his publisher]. It they d...Lord and Lady ByronWalter ScottThe Lord of the IslesPrint: Book
1850-1899'they, the Scotts, where [sic] in a state of delight about Esmond, which Thackeray had given them'the ScottsWilliam Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...Philip Larkin Henry Green[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...Philip Larkin Julian HallSenior Commoner, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...Philip Larkin Katherine Mansfield[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'This 'new direction' [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...Philip Larkin Virginia WoolfWaves, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'This afternoon I was off duty so got into my blankets at 1.45 and read a book until I fell asleep, and woke at 4.30.'Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'This afternoon I was off duty, so went to the cliffs on the other side of the village. Got down behind a hedge in the shade and read "Cycling". Many German and Chi...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]CyclingPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'This afternoon very bad with tooth-ache. Read the newspaper wherein I find the nation is all in a ferment upon the account of losing dear Minorca.' Thomas Turner [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the objects of this.'Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1900-1945'This book made a deep and lasting impression upon me because, apart from its profound human interest in the widest sense of the term, the agonising process of revaluatio...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Oscar WildeBallad of Reading Gaol or De ProfundisPrint: Book


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