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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'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' [n/a]Sports IllustratedPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey [unknown]Spring-heeled JackPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who has written the spy, and the Last of the Mohicans, &...Sarah Harriet Burney James Fenimore CooperSpy, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ...Hilary Spalding unknownSquinency WortPrint: Book
1850-1899'I bought for 3s. a novel by Mrs Oliphant, ''An English Squire'', with the same irritable young man one knows so well. A very clever description of the feelings of a wido...Emma Darwin Margaret OliphantSquire Arden?Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Rosamund Wallis Frank R. BrowningSquirrel InnPrint: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel Douglas JerroldSt Giles and St JamesPrint: Book
1800-1849''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner [Shelley] reads part of St Godwin aloud -- terrible nonsense [...] Re...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward du BoisSt Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, a...Print: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Robert Louis StevensonSt IvesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saw the death of Sir S. Romilly by his own hand in a feverish frenzy in the "St James' Chronicle" this morning, in consequence of the loss of his wife.'Benjamin Newton n/aSt James' ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir Theodore Martin.'Margaret Oliphant St James'sPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a gener...Members of XII Book ClubGeorge Bernard ShawSt JoanPrint: Book
1900-1945'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a gener...Charles Evans George Bernard ShawSt JoanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you know who is the editor of "The Northern Whig"? It com...James Hogg Eliza LoganSt Johnstoun; or, John, Earl of GowriePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Mary Berry, in letter of 2 January 1800: 'I have been reading [...] a new novel of Godwin's, in four vols., called "The Travels of St. Leon." it is an odd work, like all...Mary Berry William GodwinSt LeonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Godwin's "St. Leon". In the Preface, he explicitly abjures the doctrine of extinguishing the private affections, which he had inculcated in his Political Justice.....Thomas Green William GodwinSt Leon, a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'John Cole unknownSt Limerick's BellsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bi...Virginia Woolf Ernest RenanSt PaulPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [garage], & then home, & read St Paul & the papers [....Virginia Woolf Ernest RenanSt PaulPrint: Book
1850-1899'Took up Renan's "St Paul" as I was dressing, and read a little. A piece of epistle in smaller type caught my eye as I was closing the book: "Graces a Dieu pour son ineff...John Ruskin Ernest RenanSt PaulPrint: Book


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