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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
 
1850-1899'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 [Thomas Peckett] [Prest]Sweeney Todd the BarberPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899It would not be very easy for me to give you any idea of the pleasure I found in your present….I can assure you, your little book, coming from so far, gave me all the ple...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett MartinSweet Girl Graduate: A Christmas Story and Random ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleySwellfoot the TyrantManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson'Rose Macaulay Johann David WyssSwiss Family RobinsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'My early reading had been confined to the work of the pioneers, and in consequence it never occurred to me that big mountains coud be climbed without guides.[...] I had...Eric Shipton George D. AbrahamSwiss Mountain ClimbsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 29th July ?Sybil? ? (Disraeli) [...] I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft for my syllabus on the Historical novel.' Gerald Moore Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book for our syllabus purposes.' Gerald Moore Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
1850-189927 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of sounding the reveille at 4 o'clock in the morning [...] ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Benjamin DisraeliSybil, or The Two NationsPrint: Book
1850-189927 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of sounding the reveille at 4 o'clock in the morning [...] ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Benjamin DisraeliSybil, or The Two NationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.'Mary Shelley Francis BaconSylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie. In ten cen...Print: Book
1800-1849'Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the "Magazine" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents "Sylvan Sketches" she seems to be a thorough bookmaker'John Clare Elizabeth KentSylvan Sketches or a Companion to the ParkPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymn... [unknown]Sylvestre SoundPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat by the fire and read the Ranee of Sarawak's biography. Cannot think why she had such awful daughters.'Vere Hodgson Sylvia BrookeSylvia of Sarawak: An AutobiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George DarleySylvia or the May QueenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The sensuousness of the sailor, the characterisation, with...Edward Morgan Forster Elizabeth GaskellSylvia's LoversPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 March 1840: 'I [italics]have[end italics] Sylvia or the May Queen among my books in London. Dont you remember telling ...Elizabeth Barrett George DarleySylvia; or, The May QueenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Howard Smith Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Sylvie and BrunoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end cancelled] contemporaries, but this soon ceased & I was ...George Crabbe Samuel Jackson PrattSympathy; a PoemPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate entries based on this list] 'Symposium of Plato Pl...Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book


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