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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
 
1900-1945'I consider myself highly privileged by the possession of an inscribed copy of the limited edition of the "Preludes"; and thanking you for the beauty and music therein co...Joseph Conrad John DrinkwaterPreludes, 1921-1922Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 67 Eastern Avenue, 28th. Nov. 1945.
A. Austin Miller in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Francis E. Pollard John DrinkwaterX = 0: A Night of the Trojan WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 67 Eastern Avenue, 28th. Nov. 1945.
A. Austin Miller in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Bruce Dilks John DrinkwaterX = 0: A Night of the Trojan WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 67 Eastern Avenue, 28th. Nov. 1945.
A. Austin Miller in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Thomas Hopkins John DrinkwaterX = 0: A Night of the Trojan WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 67 Eastern Avenue, 28th. Nov. 1945.
A. Austin Miller in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		A. Austin Miller John DrinkwaterX = 0: A Night of the Trojan WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 67 Eastern Avenue, 28th. Nov. 1945.
A. Austin Miller in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Hilda Hopkins John DrinkwaterX = 0: A Night of the Trojan WarPrint: Book
1700-1799Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Like a black desart at th' approach of night I'll lay ...Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for LovePrint: Book
1700-1799"Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love')Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for LovePrint: Book
1700-1799Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1700-1799Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1700-1799Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'I had a peep at your edition of Dryden - I had not time to read the Notes which would have interested me most, namely the historical ...William Wordsworth John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read more o...John Wilson Croker John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles...George Gordon Lord Byron John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th...George Howell John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799'At the age of five she was caught by her father reading Dryden: 'I dropt my Book and burst into Tears'. However, instead of the expected punishment, her father gave her ...Laetitia Pilkington John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh John DrydenVirgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the GeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...Lady Caroline Lamb John DrydenunknownPrint: Book


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