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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
 
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writing of Cardinal Manning. I have just read the Times & ...Leonard Woolf The Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 24 April 1923: 'I am on the train from Victoria to Richmond after a very easy journey. Train from Paris packed & if I had not started ...Leonard Woolf report of death of Samuel GarrettPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both...Leonard Woolf Classical Greek textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'PS Since I finished this, I have got Alick's letter, and the Courier all in order! Thank Alick and my dear Father for the pleasure and contentment they have given me: h...Thomas Carlyle The CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'There is a Spaniard here (one of the refugees) who from Catholic has become Protestant, a very honest shrewd little fellow, between whom and Irving I have had occasion f...Thomas Carlyle Spanish GrammarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Feeling rather miz at the moment as I have been reading three days worth of the "Express" and "Evening Standard". They really fill me with alarm. I simply shall be una...Harold Nicolson ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Read French and German newspapers. Wrote three paragraphs. Fiddled about.'Harold Nicolson [French and German newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I much enjoy. I see from "Nature Notes" that yesterday ...Edward Morgan Forster PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I much enjoy. I see from "Nature Notes" that yesterday ...Edward Morgan Forster The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of ...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I much enjoy. I see from "Nature Notes" that yesterday ...Edward Morgan Forster Nature NotesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900: 'Thank you so much for sending the Punches. They are a public blessing to the staircase!'Undergraduates at King's College, Cambridge PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905: 'At 2.45 I and Herr Steinweg [German tutor employed by the Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin] [...] go a walk [...] W...Edward Morgan Forster 'The Child's first Lesebuch'Print: Book
1700-1799'[on a visit to his publisher, Constable] I read the backs of some books on his shelves, then spoke of my poem; but he would not deign to lift his eyes, or regard me'James Hogg  Print: Book
1900-1945' "Junior," she said to him, "you reeely must look. You remember Mrs Furnivall said that the part between Dieppy and Purris was vurry vurry interesting." Junior merely ... TimePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In much that way, I felt later, when my mother first read Beowulf to me, Grendel must have come up from his marsh mists, pawing and snuffling round the doors of Heriot, ...Rosemary Sutcliff BeowulfPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff RainbowPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I went to a party given by Mr Baldwin [Prime Minister] to the junior Ministers at No. 10. We all sat round the Cabinet Table and old S.B. read out the King's Speech.'Harold Nicolson King's SpeechUnknown
1850-1899'... and then nearly fell asleep over the Fortnightly. Morley is very jolly; so is Marat.'Robert Louis Stevenson Fortnightly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Alfred Rawlings Demon Lover, ThePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Rosamund Wallis [readings from ballads]Print: Unknown


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