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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'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauComplete Guide to the English LakesPrint: Book
1900-1945'To go back to your book ["Joseph Conrad: A Study"]; I know you thought highly of "Nostromo" but didn't know you placed it quite so far above the other books. The o...William Henry Hudson Richard CurleJoseph Conrad: A StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945'To go back to your book ["Joseph Conrad: A Study"]; I know you thought highly of "Nostromo" but didn't know you placed it quite so far above the other books. The o...William Henry Hudson Joseph ConradThe Secret AgentPrint: Book
1900-1945'To go back to your book ["Joseph Conrad: A Study"]; I know you thought highly of "Nostromo" but didn't know you placed it quite so far above the other books. The o...William Henry Hudson Joseph ConradNostromoPrint: Book
1900-1945'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do", she urged him, "try to get hold of 'The London Mer...Rosamond Lehmann Thomas Hardy[poem in the London Mercury]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do", she urged him, "try to get hold of 'The London Mer...Rosamond Lehmann Rupert Brooke[poem(s) in the London Mercury]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'To His Majesty's Ship Barham, appointed by the King to convey Sir Walter Scott to Naples. By William Sotheby Esq.'Bowly groupWilliam SothebyTo His Majesty's Ship BarhamUnknown
1900-1945'To King's funeral at noon [Alexander King-Clark, Knocker's brother-in-law, who had committed suicide]. R.I.P. he did his bit and I think it is for the best. Lunch at Wes...Guy Mainwaring Knocker Jeffery FarnolOur Admirable Betty: A RomancePrint: Book
1800-1849'To Love thou blam'st me not; for love thou say'st/Leads up to Heaven/ is both the way and guide/...' 'Milton'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJohn MiltonParadise Lost, Book VIIIUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'To L[eonard]W[oolf], the philistinism of [George Macaulay] Trevelyan and his friends was epitomised by their dislike of the Elizabethan dramatist John Webster, whose Duc...The 'X' SocietyJohn WebsterThe Duchess of MalfiPrint: Book
1900-1945'To Makindye. Enjoyed reading Jowett's "Things That Matter Most".'Albert Ruskin Cook John Henry JowettThings That Matter Most: Devotional ReadingsPrint: Book
1800-1849'To my Gothic ear, indeed the "Stabat Mater", the "Dies Irae", and some of the other hymns of the Catholic Church are more solemn and affecting than the fine classical po...Walter Scott George Buchanan[Latin poems and hymns]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'To my joy there was a book-case in the room and soon I was engrossed in a book which I later found was Ian Hay's "The First Hundred Thousand" a fictionalised account...Hymie Fagan Ian HayThe First Hundred ThousandPrint: Book
1800-1849'To My Mother' 'Oh! Thou whose tender smile most partially/...'Julia Mary TigheSonnet Addressed To My MotherPrint: UnknownUnknown
1600-1699'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comissioners of the Navy who begun to act in the year 1618 an...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Report of the proceedings of the commission of 16...Print: Book
1850-1899'To my surprise (as I disliked the ''Life of Jefferies'' so much) I like his ''Wild Life in a Southern County'' very much. The descriptions of country and birds are excel...Emma Darwin John Richard JefferiesLife in a Southern CountyPrint: Book
1850-1899'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Hobart Town, informing me that he has established a ne...John Mitchel Patrick O'Donohue (editor)Irish ExilePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'To my utter mortification and dissappointment I have this day received a letter from my Bookseller refusing my new work on his usual terms of publishing with me. For wha...George Boyd James HoggThree Perils of Man, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as insistent and inspiring as a trumpet-call summoning ...Vera Brittain Olive SchreinerWoman and LabourPrint: Book
1850-1899'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".'John Ruskin XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book


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