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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
 
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Froude's Short Essays on Great Subjects...Elizabeth Missing Sewell J. A. FroudeShort Essays on Great SubjectsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria E...John Wilson Croker Charles Dickensshort fictionsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Sunday 20th June ? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'.Gerald Moore H.G. WellsShort History of the WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Mary S. Stansfield E. L. WoodwardShort JourneyPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histo...Mary Russell Mitford Charles Saint JohnShort Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural Hist...Print: Book
1900-1945'In her role as literary mentor, Madge [Vaughan] had been reading some of Virginia's short narratives, all apparently lost, unless one was "Phyllis and Rosamond", dated...Madge Vaughan Virginia Stephenshort storiesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to follow [...] [literature] has committed itself too dee...Edward Morgan Forster E. M. Forstershort storiesUnknown
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 July 1933: 'I'm sending you a book of short stories; one -- by [James] Joyce -- seems to me very good. The others Ive not read.'Virginia Woolf James Joyceshort storyPrint: Book
1700-1799'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standing at the head of a juvenile class, who read the Shor...James Hogg Shorter CatechismPrint: Book
1900-1945'Arthur Benson ... when rereading the Shorter Poems [of Robert Bridges] in 1910, thought them thin, mere tricks of language ...'Arthur Benson Robert BridgesShorter PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday, 11th February, Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound interesting in a few years ? when the fashion has p...Gerald Moore Matthew PriorShorter PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R. Bridges is a poet. I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of "Shorter Poems" th...Joseph Conrad Robert BridgesShorter PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... when he (and all other readers) had failed to decipher the shorthand of [John] Flamsteed's most informed correspondent, Abraham Sharp, [Francis] Baily turned to Cha...Charles Babbage Abraham Sharpshorthand writingsManuscript: Unknown
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer; as to the pastoral part, Virgil is very evi...Samuel Johnson Sicilian GossipsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 31st March 1942. S. A. Reynolds in the chair. 1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. [...] 4. The...Margaret Dilks John BuchanSick Heart RiverPrint: Book
1900-194523 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & Turgenev.'Virginia Woolf Mary Agnes HamiltonSidney and Beatrice WebbPrint: Book
1900-1945'Virginia [Woolf] read at least three of Colette's books, two of autobiography (Mes Apprentissages, 1934, Sido, 1929), and one of fiction (Duo, 1934), and the two write...Virginia Woolf Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteSidoPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the "golden books" of his childhood was J.W. Meinhold's 1847 Gothic historical novel "Sidonia the Sorceress". Wilde's mother, who was an accomplished translator o...Oscar Wilde J.W. MeinholdSidonia the SorceressPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 7 January 1847: 'If it were not for the Bible & Shakespeare, we might say seriously that we had not seen a rea...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning SieclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "the siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to M...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusSiege of Jerusalem, ThePrint: Book


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