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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
 
1800-1849'Sun of the Sleepless' 'Sun of the Sleepless! Melancholy Star!...'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronSun of the SleeplessUnknown
1900-1945'Reads Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Likes best any sort of outspoken article that's exposing anything, and sport. Reason:' tickles me, I suppose.' Spends most ti... Sunday ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Dad, who is usually very anxious for his dinner, is often late on Sunday, when he is busy studying the sports pages in the Sunday Chronicle'. Sunday ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'We have the Sunday Express because it is more newsy, and the People because my mother likes the women's page and father likes the 'Plan with the Planets' astrological fo... Sunday ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945 In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sun...Arnold Bennett Sunday ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the Daily Herald because it gives full account of the news, It is rather inclined to be "partly" and sometimes rather dull. The Sunday Graphic is an excellent pap... Sunday GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thanks for sending the socks and gloves received yesterday, and for the letter which came the day before. The socks are quite the thing, and the gloves came in goo...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Sunday PictorialPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'After tea, K. [Katharine Cook] & I went up in the side car & spent some time with Wallace. He was reading out of the Sunday School Times ... Most incoherent. K brought h... Sunday School TimesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		"... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union's magazines, at the incessant stories of poor boys w...Marianne Farningham Sunday School Union magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [unknown]Sunday StoriesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also read the book reviews in "John O' London's". Quite of... [n/a]Sunday TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Read services at home and Sunday Times.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Sunday TimesPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945‘We are billeted in a town of single-line tramways and mean streets: four-foot square vegetable gardens, where plaintive cabbages wither: cobbles, tenements and cats ...Charles Hamilton Sorley Sunday TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Do you read the Sunday Times? It is a poor paper, but has great military articles by Spenser Wilkinson, one of the foremost European authorities. This man does not in ...Arnold Bennett Spencer WilkinsonSunday Times articlesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except when I read Ellis's "Sunlight on Parnassus" to B. whi... EllisSunlight on ParnassusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Sunset Song". No doubt at all about the richness, the routhiness of this book. Careless, often unnecessarily "course", to employ his own far too much over-work...William Soutar Lewis Grassic GibbonSunset SongPrint: Book
1900-1945'One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinburne's "Super Flumina Babylonis" - a favourite poem ...Winifred Holtby Algernon Charles SwinburneSuper Flumina BabylonisPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford Thomas SorocoldSupplications of Saints; A booke of prayers: ... W...Print: Book
1800-1849Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my partial habits of reading.Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusSupplicesPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hemsterhuis, "Sur la Divinite." my brother Joseph came...George Grote HemsterhuisSur la divinitePrint: Unknown


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