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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'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the...		Bruce Dilks J. W. W. SullivanThe Bases of Modern SciencePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of a Couplet from Charles Aleyn, 'The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Charles AleynThe Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers Print: Book
1900-1945'At Radlett over the week-end. Read some of Maurois' The Fall of France. I remember poor Maurois making his way to England and giving that last despairing broadcast. H...Vere Hodgson André MauroisThe Battle of FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I w...Elizabeth Barrett Elizabeth BarrettThe Battle of MarathonManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney William WatsonThe Battle of the BightPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill informed stuff [...] seriously as criticism, even as des...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftThe Battle of the BooksPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge S. Maxwell [potential pseudonym]The Battle of the Bridge; or Pisa DefendedPrint: Book
1800-1849The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 15 November 1809: 'I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 20th October, and your poem, which I have read with ...Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington John Wilson CrokerThe Battles of TalaveraPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read poem of "Talevera" ascribed to Croker.'William Windham John Wilson CrokerThe Battles of Talevera, a poemUnknown
1700-1799'Finished the "Baviad and Maeviad"; an exquisite satire on the loathsome affectations of the Della Crusca school of poetry...'Thomas Green William GiffordThe BaviadPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William GiffordThe Baviad Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... the Bavia...Mountstuart Elphinstone [William] [Gifford]The Baviad and the MaeviadPrint: Book
1800-1849Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot.Anne Lister The Bay of BiscayUnknown
1800-1849'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosions, where the conspirators and conspired against must...Sydney Smith [unknown]The BeaconPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945 I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would have published them in a small volume, but his publishi...Arnold Bennett Pauline SmithThe BeadleManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her...Chaim Bermant n/aThe BeanoPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ...Harriet Grove Agnes Maria BennettThe Beggar Girl and her BenefactorsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I on Friday the 16th went up in the coach to consult Mess'rs Bridges, Blake & other friends upon the matter, taking with me to amuse myself in the coach etc. the new pop...John Marsh Agnes Maria BennettThe beggar girl and her benefactorsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842: 'I read the Beggar girl, when I was very young'.Elizabeth Barrett Agnes Maria BennettThe Beggar Girl and Her BenefactorsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday March 17th. [...] Read [...] the Play of Beggar's Bush.'Claire Clairmont Fletcher (?and Massinger)The Beggar's BushPrint: Book


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