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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'To Fortune' 'I care not fortune what you deny me, ... J. Thompson'Beanlands groupJames ThomsonThe Castle of Otranto OR To FortuneUnknown
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell Horace WalpoleThe Castle of Otranto: A Gothic StoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Florence Bell (and Mrs Herbert Richmond, née Elsa Bell)The Cat and Fiddle Book: Eight dramatised nursery ...Print: Book
1900-1945'John Buchan was there, brisk and unpretentious, and the bluff and cordial Hugh Walpole, over whose new novel, "The Cathedral", I was to laugh and weep so rapturously in ...Vera Brittain Hugh WalpoleThe CathedralPrint: Book
1900-1945 I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well enough even to say anything about it to him at all. . . ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe CathedralPrint: Book
1900-1945'I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present editor of the E[nglish] R[eview]. [...] The "[The]Headland of Minerva" and the "...Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasThe Caves of Siren Land (and 2 other pieces cited ...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850: 'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much pleased with the book. [italics]I[end italics] am rea...Robert Browning Edward George Bulwer-LyttonThe Caxtons. A Family PicturePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 November 1849:

'I have read the "Caxtons," I have looked at "Fanny Hervey," I think I will not write wh...		Charlotte Brontë Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Caxtons: A Family PicturePrint: Book
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read"Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the imm...Joseph Conrad Abu Zaid (and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt)The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare...Print: Book
1850-1899'At the moment I am in the act of discovering ?W.B. Yeats?, the Irish poet, whose prose, to my mind, is just about equal to anything going round. I have been fascinated ...Arnold Bennett W.B. YeatsThe Celtic TwilightPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe CenciUnknown
1800-1849'We think he is mistaken in every respect. His work does not teach the human heart, but insults it...His precepts are conveyed in the cries of Bedlam; and the outrage of ...John Scott Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe CenciPrint: Book
1700-1799'With us, the "Centaur not fabulous" has met with a pretty good Reception; tho' some good People wish that it had less of the Enthusiasm of Poetry in it; less of Imaginat...Samuel Richardson Edward YoungThe Centaur not Fabulous; in Six Letters to a Frie...Manuscript: Unknown, printed by Richardson so presumably read in MS
1900-1945'Your delightful letter, the Challenge (which I think grows better and better—especially the Prayer suggestions on the last page), and various enclosures arrived on...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton The ChallengePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott: "I have read your late Champions with much pleasure"William Wordsworth The ChampionPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'A statement about the position as regards the exchange of internees is given by "The Changi Guardian" (the prisoners' bulletin): no steps have been taken yet and can onl...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Changi Guardian" says in the "Do You Know?" pages: "That each dawn is now broken by the patter of running feet - two enthusiasts, etc!" The editors must have been a...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Changi Guardian", in its cricket report, says: "Kitching fought the vigorous attack amid rising excitement and, when the final two came just before time, there was ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Changi Guardian" reports: "The Changi Cricket League, long expected, is now in being, thanks to the untiring energy of Mr Tom Kitching".'Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'And now for the best jest so far in Changi: the editors of "The Changi Guardian" suddenly have their cells turned inside out this morning. They are sent for. We all wond...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper


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