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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
 
1850-1899Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her future sister-in-law Mary Findlay Cross that 'I rea...Mary Ann Evans Mary Finlay CrossstoryUnknown
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 May 1874: "Of Aldrich's tale, I'm sorry to say I've lost the thread, through missing a number of the magazine ..."Henry James Thomas Bailey AldrichstoryPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, before 24 May 1912: 'Dear Woolf 'It's a good story. Try the English Review -- I know of no other magazine that will pay for erection...Edward Morgan Forster Leonard WoolfstoryManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797): 'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] we are of an afternoon, my aunt reads and tells us st...Harriet Ponsonby storyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Zoe Proctor [sic] (b. 1867) describes how, during the 1870s, when her father was governor of the County Gaol at Bury St Edmunds, she "could not gain sufficient solitud...Zoe Procter [Anon] [Anon]story booksPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 18 January 1848: 'I have not read "Azeth", but I did read or begin to read a tale in the "New Monthly" from the same pen, and ... must co...Charlotte Bronte Eliza Lynn Lintonstory in New Monthly MagazinePrint: 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...Charles Evans Andrew LangStory of Joan of Arc, ThePrint: 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 Andrew LangStory of Joan of Arc, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence ...Mary Hayward Richard JefferiesStory of my Heart, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin James Leigh HuntStory of RiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley James Leigh HuntStory of RiminiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Another lovely book called "The Story of San Michele".'Hilary Spalding Axel MuntheStory of San Michele, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.Hilary Spalding Axel MuntheStory of San Michele, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 19th July ?Story teller in London? ? (Pett Ridge) This book is of the type that I enjoy when easy reading is the mood. To make almost personal acquaintance w...Gerald Moore William Pett RidgeStory Teller in LondonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Thomas Carter on childhood reading: '"I gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeats and fruit, and was moreover a dealer in little books [...] I had ...Thomas Carter storybooksPrint: Book
1900-1945[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could talk slickly about dialectical materialism. His own d...Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Straight and Crooked ThinkingPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Strand MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put togeth...William Soutar Wilfred OwenStrange MeetingPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetry 1916-1917". This new volume of the anthology, publ...Wilfred Owen Harold MonroStrange MeetingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Bari...Francis Pollard Sabine Baring-GouldStrange Survivals and SuperstitionsPrint: Book


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