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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'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Christina Rossetti Print: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Francis Turner PalgraveGolden Treasury of English Songs and LyricsPrint: Book
1900-1945'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do please read "Sheaves" - It is delightful and also, it i...Katherine Mansfield E.F. BensonSheavesPrint: Book
1700-1799'While I read [your letter], I have you before me in person: I converse with you and your dear Anna, as arm in arm you traverse the happy terrace...'Samuel Richardson Sophia Westcomb[letter]Manuscript: Letter, Unknown
1700-1799'While I was writing the two volumes [of Pamela], my worthy-hearted wife, and the young lady who is with us, when I had read them some part of the story, which I had begu...Samuel Richardson Samuel RichardsonPamelaManuscript: Unknown, manuscript of his novel
1800-1849'While I write now, George is most industriously making and naming paper ships, at which he afterwards shoots with horse-chestnuts, brought from Steventon on purpose; and...Edward Knight Anna Maria PorterLake of KillarneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipate me altogether.'John Ruskin E.V. Rippingille [ed.]Artist's and Amateur's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted mayde".'Samuel Pepys [unknown][playbill]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
1850-1899'While out to-night we purchased Whitford's stories of "Under the Dray". There is not much in them but they are decidedly readable & very good for sixpence. Harry commenc...Harry Castieau WhitfordThe Larrikin's StoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'While Polly was at Church I read many Tales to the little [children] until they were tired'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'While Polly was away I read to Harry & Dotty one of the Ingoldsby's Legends'John Buckley Castieau Richard Harris BarhamIngoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1900-1945'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rugs in the deck house on a "wild grey day", and they m...Pauline Smith Arnold BennettRiceyman StepsPrint: Book, proofs
1600-1699'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaJoseph AddisonworksPrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaEdward Young Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia Voltaire [pseud.]ZadigPrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaAlexander Pope[translations of Homer and other works]Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia [books of European travels]Print: Book


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