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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
 
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David, told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the "Turkish History" of him, in order to form his play from it'.Samuel Johnson [Turkish History]Print: Book
1900-1945Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927: 'I love me, I love me, I'm wild about myself, I love me, I love me, my picture's on the shelf, You may not ...Edward Morgan Forster 'I love me' (song lyric)Print: Book
1900-1945'In front of the fire, the little plump cook read the evening paper aloud to the housemaid. "'The Queen is now asleep,'" she quoted in sepulchral tones, while I, absorb...anon [a cook] evening paperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching in girls' private schools.'Vera Brittain newspapersPrint: Newspaper
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 Thomas the RhymerPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include Zechariah I.ii: 'And they answered the Angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees and...Edward Morgan Forster Book of ZechariahPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Disappointment of God. 'The Times, in an article with this title, announced that though God is certainly disappointed by the state of the world we must not go so ...Edward Morgan Forster 'The Disappointment of God'Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the...James Boswell London Chronicle Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Transcribed by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944): 'On Hydon's top there is a cup And in that cup there is a drop Take up the cup and drink the drop And p...Edward Morgan Forster A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin...Alfred Tennyson Analecta Graeca MinoraPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin...Alfred Tennyson Eton Latin GrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Arthur Tennyson on his brother Alfred's childhood reading: 'He was always a great reader; and if he went alone he would take his book with him on his walk. One day in ...Alfred Tennyson unknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'Janet Fraser . . . had gone out to the fields with a young female companion, and sat down to read the Bible . . . [Going to get a drink of water, she left] her Bible ope...Janet Fraser Bible - Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1850-1899'O when we woke in London docks, the first steamer I saw go past was the "Charles", and the next the "Cygnet": I was afraid to look any more, I felt so eerie; but of cour...Robert Louis Stevenson  Manuscript: Letter, Painted (or stencilled?) on ships' sides.
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to Emily Sellwood (1839): 'I am housed at Mr Wildman's, an old friend of mine in these parts: he and his wife are two perfectly honest Methodists [...]...Alfred Tennyson 'anecdotes of Methodist ministers'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to Emily Sellwood (1839): 'I took up this morning an unhappy book of English verse by a Welshman, and read therein that all which lies at present swamp...Alfred Tennyson 'book of English verse by a Welshman'Print: Book
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to Hallam Tennyson, on his childhood hypochondria: 'I used, from having early read in my father's library a great number of medical books, to fancy at ...Alfred Tennyson 'medical books'Print: Book
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1850-1899		'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible, and tra...Alfred Tennyson BiblePrint: Book
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1850-1899		'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible, and tra...Alfred Tennyson works on BiblePrint: Book
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1850-1899		'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible [...] ...Alfred Tennyson philosophical textsPrint: Book


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