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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'With little formal education, William Farish acquired basic literacy and political knowledge by reading newspapers to Newtown weavers. (Their favourite was the tri-weekl...William Farish Evening MailPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she has nothing to tell and does not tell it very well....Sydney Smith Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de StaalMemoiresPrint: Book
1900-1945'With Mademoiselle Fleury that morning I had been struck by some lines in Ronsard's "Sonnets pour Helene", bittersweet, barbed, that drove home a feeling I had recognised...Ralph Glasser Pierre RonsardSonnets pour HelenePrint: Book
1800-1849'With many thanks I return your books -The Man of two Lives is founded on a good idea - treated to a great degree happily - yet it strikes me to be a translation - the ph...Mary Shelley James BoadenMan of Two Lives, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'With my London-Matric knowledge of German I have struggled through the appreciation of you in 'Die Zeit.' Arnold Bennett Fr Graz in Die ZeitPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'With my own share of the Packet I feel not less contented. Especially glad was I to find my old favourite the Wanderjahre so considerably enlarged: the new portions of ...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meisters WanderjahrePrint: Book
1850-1899'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my want, among the second-hand bookstalls in Newcastle ...Thomas Burt John MiltonAeropagiticaPrint: Book
1850-1899'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my want, among the second-hand bookstalls in Newcastle ...Thomas Burt John Milton[various]Print: Book
1900-1945'With nothing else to do, the library queue has grown beyond all bounds. It took me an hour yesterday to get "The Silk Stocking Murders" by A. Berkeley - quite a good det...Thomas Kitching A BerkeleyThe Silk Stocking MurdersPrint: Book
1700-1799'With regard to little French Epitaphs I have always had an Itch to translate them, & some times have fancied that I could do them successfully' [she gives an example of ...Hester Lynch Thrale [French epitaphs]Unknown
1800-1849'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have often read more, almost never studied less!... There is ...Thomas Carlyle Robert JamesonUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at least if M. Gauss is right - who (Leslie tells us) has d...Thomas Carlyle Sir John LeslieElements of GeometryPrint: Book
1850-1899'With regard to your article, though admiring of the ingenuity of it, I yearned to tear the argument to rags. There is scarcely a single statement in that article to whi...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Note on FictionPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'With respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature. Berzelius' paper is printed - I was this day correcting the proof-sheet-. The...Thomas Carlyle Baron Jacob BerzeliusExamination of some compounds which depend upon ve...Print: Proof-sheet
1800-1849'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a jun...John Mitchel William Shakespeare[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a jun...John Mitchel PlatoDialoguesPrint: Book
1800-1849'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a jun...John Mitchel Aristotle?PoliteiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved for me, while I restricted my reading of Shakespeare ...Vero Walter Garratt Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved for me, while I restricted my reading of Shakespeare ...Vero Walter Garratt Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved for me, while I restricted my reading of Shakespeare ...Vero Walter Garratt William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book


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