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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'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I gre...James Glass Bertram Samuel WarrenTen thousand a yearPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be patted & generally would easily become a tenant of Wil...Leslie Stephen Anne BronteTenant of Wildfell HallPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated'John Luther Hawkins Stopford BrookeTennyson: his Art and Relation to Modern Life Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Tent Life in Siberia. -- Not a very new...Elizabeth Missing Sewell George KennanTent Life in SiberiaPrint: Book
1700-1799'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...Samuel Johnson JuvenalTenth SatirePrint: Book
1700-1799'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,-- "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano", and s...Dr Brocklesby JuvenalTenth SatirePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,-- "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano", and s...Samuel Johnson JuvenalTenth SatirePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plat...Mary Shelley John MiltonTenure of Kings and Magistrates, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'.George Eliot [pseud.] Giuseppe Zirardini [probably]Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimote...Print: Book
1900-1945'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college in 1936, but they taught her nothing about sex: "Th...Margaret Wharton Thomas HardyTess of the d'UrbervillesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Edith] Hall recalled that she discovered Thomas Hardy in a WEA class in the 1920s when "Punch and other publications of that kind showed cartoons depicting the servant ...Edith Hall Thomas HardyTess of the d'UrbervillesPrint: 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 Thomas HardyTess of the d'UrbervillesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sometimes when I think ... of the Dream-city, with its grey towers and autumn sunsets, and the little room where surrounded by books I used to read "Tess of the D'Urber...Vera Brittain Thomas HardyTess of the D'UrbervillesPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H.M. Wallis one on the minor poems. F.E. Reynolds rea...Florence Reynolds Thomas HardyTess of the d'UrbervillesPrint: Book
1900-1945'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from ...Dorothy Brain Thomas HardyTess of the d'UrbervillesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar ...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Youth. Not that I much like her. A stringy metallic mind...Virginia Woolf Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entirely changed his opinion of me.'St. John Ervine Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yet the previous December, after reading my first nine chapters, G. had written to me at Halifax: "Your book, I think, is a very great, a very moving book...powerful, s...George Catlin Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I have just put down the "Testament Politique,"" G. was writing to me, as though by telepathy, only a week later, "and I turn to think ... of you reading it to enlighte...Frederick the Great of Prussia Testament PolitiquePrint: Book


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