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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
 
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Stendhal (pseud.)La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Honore de BalzacPere GoriotPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Anatole France (pseud.)[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Pierre Loti (pseud.)[exotic tales]Print: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Guy de Maupassant[tales: short stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'Abt 4 - I returned - and the time until 7 was taken up in reading "Gregory's Legacy"- He is one of my favorite authors- there is something so sincere & so pleasing witha...William Upcott John GregoryA Father's Legacy to His DaughtersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write & say so.'James Stanier Clarke Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'According to "The Syonan Times", 10,000 prisoners are working on it [war memorial]. A "Lisbon cable" published in the same newspaper says that Sir Anthony Eden, the Fore...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'According to "The Syonan Times", the Government of Malaya says that the Nipponese will educate the youth of Malaya properly. We only did it intellectually.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'According to Florrie [his mother] Dylan taught himself to read from second-rate comics such as "Rainbow"'.Dylan Thomas RainbowPrint: Serial / periodical, comic
1900-1945'According to R.C.K. Ensor's "Miniature History of the War", "the annihilating raid on Lubeck...and the raid of 1,130 bombers on Cologne...each marked an epoch" in Allied...Vera Brittain Robert Charles Kirkwood EnsorMiniature History of the WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'According to what I've read everything seems to be going very satisfactorily, but not knowing the country, I've no idea what we're up against, but I think the Germans ar... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following afternoon we began "The Merchant of Venice". There was on...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareMerchant of VenicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Account in paper of persons sent to tower for high treason.'Benjamin Newton n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Account in the papers of great floods at Ballaarat & other places, at Coleraine nine persons are said to have been drowned & much damage has been caused at other parts o...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Actually Hotspur is reading from a letter and the quotation goes on: "'The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you have named uncertain; the time itself unso... letterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith Samuel JohnsonThoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkl...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith Jonathan Swift[poems to Stella]Print: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book


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