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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'The Bridesmaid' 'The bridal is o'er the guests are all gone/...'Carey/Maingay groupThomas Haynes BaylyThe BridesmaidPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'The Bride Maid The bridal is over, the guests are all gone... Jany 18 1829'Bowly groupThomas Haynes BaylyThe BridesmaidUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines lines from the "Bride of Abydos" [Byron].Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Bridge of AbydosUnknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved


[...]

...

Rosamund Wallis Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis ReyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39.
    A Bruce Dilks in the chair.

1. Minutes of last [two meetings] read & approved...		Roger Moore Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis ReyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculous. I am sending you a copy of 'Polite Farces' by th...Arnold Bennett Arthur Conan DoyleThe British Campaign in France and FlandersPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room shou...Henry James The British ChroniclePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'From 9 till 11 was idly spent in looking thro a Volume of the British Critic.'William Upcott n/aThe British CriticPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I read in Bourchette's "British Provinces Now" in North America of the meteorlogical state of the two Canadas in the year 1820, monthly and yearly.'William Richard Grahame Joseph BouchetteThe British Dominions in North AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ...Thomas Carlyle Thomas MortimerThe British PlutarchPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'The British Recluse'.Gertrude Savile Eliza HaywoodThe British Recluse; Or the Secret History of CleoPrint: Book
1850-1899On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Weekly as a newspaper boy, which 'gave me the taste for ...[a Lancashire man] anon The British WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Florence Louisa BarclayThe Broken HaloPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday. Rainy day. Met at 11am for Church Service which was cancelled. Walked about. Read The Broken Road by Mason.'William Thomas A. E. W. MasonThe Broken RoadPrint: Book
1850-1899'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ...Leslie Stephen G. B. SmithThe BrontesManuscript: article
1900-1945'George Moores Gospel according to George and Mary Hunter is a very tiresome book just like any rewritten Gospel and most "historical" novels.'Maurice Baring George MooreThe Brook KerithPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha...William John Brown Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have you read it? & the extraordinary speech of Ivan abou...Leonard Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Ottoline Morrell, 2 April 1910: 'I am reading Les Freres Karamazov, but am so far a little disappointed. It seems sketchy, though I have no notion wha...Edward Morgan Forster Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do hope you are not too disgusted with me for not thanking you for the "[The Brothers] Karamazov" before. It was very dear of you to remember me; and of course I was e...Joseph Conrad Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book


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