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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
 
1900-1945Charlotte Mew 'felt stunned' by May Sinclair's novel "The Combined Maze" (published February 1913), telling Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, '"it has completely got and kept h...Charlotte Mew May SinclairThe Combined MazePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He treads [?], as treads a monarch towards his throne/ Dark...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Henry NeeleThe cometPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished, and was reading at night Browning's "Ring and the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Coming of ArthurManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manuel Lacunza Y DiazThe Coming of Messiah in Glory and MajestyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Edward George Earl Bulwer LyttonThe Coming RacePrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Francis E. Pollard John A. SpenderThe Comments of BagshotPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Francis E. Pollard John A. SpenderThe Comments of BagshotPrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 6 January 1827: 'In the evening read Foote's farce of the Commissary, said to have been levelled at Sir Laurence Dundas.'Walter Scott FooteThe CommissaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-charming-of-you-to-send-me-your-book-I-am-looking-forw...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfThe Common ReaderPrint: Book
1900-1945'then the old problem: what shall I read at dinner, propped open by a fork? decide finally on Virginia, grab the common reader, a pair of spectacles, a pencil, go in to d...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfThe Common ReaderPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great pleasure".'Thomas Hardy Virginia WoolfThe Common ReaderPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great pleasure".'Thomas Hardy Virginia WoolfThe Common ReaderPrint: Book
1600-1699Reading James Harrington, The Common-Wealth of Oceana, Henry Oldenburg "took notes only from the 'Preliminaries'."Henry Oldenburg James HarringtonThe Common-Wealth of OceanaPrint: Book
1800-1849Professor W. Smythe to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'Your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"] quite succeeded with me, giving me a great d...Professor W. Smythe Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Charles Poulett Thomson to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'I return you your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England" with many thanks for the ins...Charles Poulett Thomson Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, [1831]: 'I have just read your proof-sheet [of second volume of Berry's "Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"] [goes on to...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: In proof
1800-1849Lady Charlotte Lindsay to Mary Berry, 25 April 1828, on vol.1 of Berry's "Comparative View of Social Life in France and England": 'Your book is [italics]quite new[end ita...Lady Charlotte Lindsay Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 9 June 1828: 'I have read your "View of the Social Life, &c.," twice; and it has lost nothing, but rather gained, on the second perusal. Th...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907: 'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I have for the first time read The Competition Wallah...Leonard Woolf Sir George Otto TrevelyanThe Competition WallahPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Young's "Night Thoughts".'Thomas Turner Edward YoungThe complaint or night thoughtsPrint: Book


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