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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'In the even read part of Wiseman's "Chyrurgery".'Thomas Turner Richard WisemanSeveral Chirurgical TreatisesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any.'Jane Austen Thomas SherlockSeveral Discourses Preached at the Temple ChurchPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and the "Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...'Margaret Cole and brothers Sexton BlakePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow...Ruth Slate Auguste ForelSexual EthicsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm afraid I just pick any books. I go in for light reading mostly. I've get two detective books for light reading, one by Scott, and "Night club Murder" by Brandon, an... DeepingShabby SummerPrint: Book
1850-1899One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'Lynch? Lynch?' The name was jotted down in a notebook...Robert Louis Stevenson Lawrence L. LynchShadowed by Three: A Detective StoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about ...Lady Caroline Lamb unknownShadows in the WaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

[...]

7. We then listened to a nu...		Charles E. Stansfield Nancy PriceShadows on the HillsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the meantime I thank you heartily for your more than in one way very interesting vol.["Shadows out of the Crowd"]. We shall have a talk about it when you come, with t...Joseph Conrad Richard CurleShadows out of the CrowdPrint: Book
1900-1945'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play again. I cannot expertly criticize the critical book b...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisShakespeare and his LoveManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William ShakespeareShakespeare's Complete WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read Bradley on "Hamlet" all day, and am in a greater muddle over it than I am over "Antony and Cleo", if that is possible!'Hilary Spalding A.C. BradleyShakespearean TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'.Hilary Spalding A.C. BradleyShakespearean TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading A.C. Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy", which has lain unread for 20 years: a work of profound penetration. Not only has it taught me much about Shakesp...William Soutar A.C. BradleyShakespearean TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I keep the two books a little longer. "Shakespeare" is good.'Joseph Conrad A.[Andrew] C.[Cecil] BradleyShakespearean Tragedy:Lectures on Hamlet, Othello,...Print: Book
1900-1945'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play again. I cannot expertly criticize the critical book b...Arnold Bennett S.T. ColeridgeShakesperian Criticism (?)Print: Book
1850-1899'Oh my vessel's on the say says the shan van voght And I do not know what to say says the shan van voght.'Robert Louis Stevenson Traditional BalladShan Van VoghtUnknown
1850-1899'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the r...Frances Stevenson Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1850-1899"'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... 'I am struck with the beastly bloodiness of it ...'"Henry James H. Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ...R.L. Wild Henry Rider HaggardShePrint: Book


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