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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'Walk up the Mountain with S. - he reads aloud Lovers Progress'Percy Bysshe Shelley Philip MassingerLovers' Progress, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'walk with S. - he reads Every Man in his humour aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Walk with S. - he reads some of the tales of Sacchetti aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Franco SacchettiDelle novellePrint: Book
1600-1699'Walked back again, reading of my civil law book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walked Clausin with Herr Byng. Read "A Midsummer Day's Dream". Wire from Mrs Henderson.'Verena Vera Pennefather H. B. Marriott WatsonA Midsummer Day's DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walked Marshy Meadows by myself. Read "Kim".'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walked Marshy Meadows. Read "Light that Failed."'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingThe Light that FailedPrint: Book
1600-1699'walked to see Sir W. Penn at Deptford, reading by the way a most ridiculous play, a new one call[ed] "The Politician cheated".'Samuel Pepys Alexander GreenThe Politician cheatedPrint: Book
1600-1699'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wher...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wher...Sir William Coventry Samuel Pepys[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Walking back to lunch I met an old lady wheeling another old lady in a bath-chair, and heard the one in the bath-chair reading aloud slowly from the leaflet I had been d... [unknown][pamphlet]Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Walt Whitman ... recalled in old age ... [having read The Heart of Midlothian] "a dozen times or more"'.Walt Whitman Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ...Walter Citrine Pelham Grenville Wodehouse[short school story]Print: Book
1900-1945'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ...Walter Citrine [unknown][school stories from The Captain]Print: Book
1900-1945'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ...Walter Citrine Karl Marx[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - it is not fair. - He has Fame & Profit enough as a Poet, and should not be taking the bread out of ...Jane Austen Walter Scott[Poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetitions of himself. Caleb is overdone. Sir W. and Lady ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1900-1945'Warm thanks for the charming copy of "Wild Oranges" which it was a great pleasure to have in this interesting form. [...] You will be good enough to give my most friendl...Joseph Conrad Joseph HergesheimerWild OrangesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Warmest thanks for the vol and for the inscription. Oh my dear how good how profoundly appealing all this is — this little selection.'Joseph Conrad Hubert WellingtonWilliam RothensteinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown


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