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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'Only a short time ago, sitting in the elegant offices of the British Red Cross Society in Grosvenor Crescent, I read in the official "Report by the Joint War Committee o...Vera Brittain Report by the Joint War Committee of the British R...Print: official report
1900-1945'I was no better reconciled to staying at home when I read in "The Times" a few weeks after my return that the persistent German raiders had at last succeeded in their in...Vera Brittain The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'On Sunday morning, June 16th, I opened the "Observer", which appeared to be chiefly concerned with the new offensive - for the moment at a standstill - in the Noyon-Mont...Vera Brittain The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There followed a quotation from the correspondent of the Corriere della Sera, who described "the Austrian attack on the Italian positions in the neighbourhood of the Ton...Vera Brittain The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are several relevant books in his library, including a few mar...Wilfred Owen [anthologies of French poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetry 1916-1917". This new volume of the anthology, publ...Wilfred Owen Georgian Poetry 1916-1917Print: Book
1700-1799' [Boswell lamenting the dificulty of compiling a definitive Johnson bibliography] I once got from one of his friends a list, which there was pretty good reason to suppos...James Boswell [list of Johnson's works compiled by Mr Levett]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyll, from the Temple, London, on return from French holiday of summer 1861: 'I had intended to write yesterday [...] and I scarce kno...Alfred Tennyson Zohrab the HostagePrint: Book
1900-1945'We returned to England to read, in an evening newspaper bought at Folkestone, of the death of Lord Northcliffe, but a week later another death occurred which seemed, to ...Vera Brittain newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Times" is exciting itself over the surplus women, as revealed by the census - 102 per 1,000, I believe, to be exact! They were quite nice to us in a leading articl...Vera Brittain The TimesPrint: Newspaper
'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like to see a translation of it in poetical prose like t...Allan Ramsay [books of Job and Ruth]Print: Book
1900-1945'There is no particular talk in this house except the slump in theatres, & the general & increasing badness of the 'London Mercury'. I find the L.M. very dull & pompous....Arnold Bennett London MercuryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'June 8th. We went home by Winchester and slept there, and lunched with the Warburtons [...] He [Tennyson] and Mr Warburton compare...Alfred Tennyson Book of JobPrint: Book
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer; as to the pastoral part, Virgil is very evi...Samuel Johnson Sicilian GossipsPrint: Book
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Goldsmith one day brought to the Club a printed Ode, which he, with others, had been hearing re... [an ode]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'Whilst I was at home, I remember, my father would make mee read the Bible; which, through an eager desire of play, and that inbred corruption wherby I hated all things t...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'When I was past the worst of my sicknes I would be almost continually reading the Bible or other books . . . I [would] studye hard to gett up what I had lost in the read...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'I was diligent in reading the scriptures every day, and read them once through in a yeare for the 3 first yeares according to Mr Bifield's directions [i.e. Nicholas Byfi...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'April 3. On the day when [his daughter Mary had been] borne last year, Easter fell; I had made a sermon of Abraham's offering his only son etc., little thinking (as I to...Isaac Archer The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'December 25. I had somewhat before, by accident, chosen a booke to read, which I had long by mee, but never did read it. 'Twas upon Ephesians 3:19, which did much affect...Isaac Archer [Commentary upon Ephesians: 3]Print: Book


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