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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
 
1900-1945'To quote "The Syonan Times", "All houses will hoist the Rising Sun Flag".'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'to return to "Pastor Fido", with whom I have not yet finished, - I must tell you, that though I (what a great authority!) do not take pleasure in this said translation o...Miss V[-] Giovanni Battista GuarinoIl Pastor FidoPrint: Book
1800-1849'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little ...Mrs Williams Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little ...Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1900-1945'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provence?. He died this year ? how sad he must have been ...Winifred Agnes Moore Ford Madox FordProvencePrint: Book
1700-1799'To Richard's where I stayed all afternoon ... I met mr Graham of our college formerly, and he showed me some Verses about Lord Cateret that were made in Ireland, pretty ...John Byrom anon[Verse on Lord Cateret]Unknown
1700-1799'To Richardson as a Writer he gave the highest Praises, but mentioning his unquenchable Thirst after Applause That Man said he could not be content to sail gently down th...Samuel Johnson Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti...Leslie Stephen unknown[French novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti...Leslie Stephen George SandunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti...Leslie Stephen Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'To see "Ching Lee Soo" with whole family at 6 p.m. Very bon show. Read and wrote letters after dinner. Gally in to dine. Raining.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849'To Selina' 'I have known thee in the sunshine/of thy beauty and thy bloom/...'Carey/Maingay groupThomas Haynes BaylyI Have Known Thee in the SunshinePrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athens" by Miss Owenson; which must be very clever, becau...Austen FamilySydney OwensonWoman, or Ida of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athens" by Miss Owenson; which must be very clever, becau...Jane Austen Sydney OwensonThe Wild Irish GirlPrint: Book
1600-1699'to Sir W. Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work; being a collection of the perticulars of the excess in charge created by a war - with good content.'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[manuscript on naval expenses]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'To tea at my friend Cape's and looked over his mss.'John Cole Thomas Cape[private writing]Manuscript: Sheet, mss
1900-1945'To tea at No 1 [squadron's mess] with Moore, v.good tea. Not to church all day — must go next week. Read in the evening.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'To tea with No 1 [squadron]. The Hun [i.e., the aircraft shot down by the squadron in the morning's engagement] fought jolly well and was Lt Voss who had got 17 of our m...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'To the "Evening Standard" Anne Matheson had contributed a later and similar description of Nuremberg.'Vera Brittain Anne MathesonArticle in the "Evening Standard"Print: Newspaper


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