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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
 
1850-1899'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, great credit is given to the "Government" for their i...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Yesterday I was enabled after reading to cast my care wholly and publicly upon the great helper of the helpless, in which I found peace'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday I was given half the day off. In the afternoon I went to my tent and lay down to read and sleep. In the evening I sat in the Salvation Army room and read...Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday I went to the workhouse to spend the evening with the children; a prospect I have had in view for some time... I took them things for tea: I dreaded going on m...Elizabeth Fry Frederick Smith[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I desired my friend Madame Belloc to use her own disc...Maria Edgeworth Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de LamartineHistoire des GirondinsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday Mr Shields came and disturbed me, but I was glad to see him. Did some "Frederick" in spite'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by...Hilaire Belloc Hilaire Belloc'The Dons', 'The Poor of London'Unknown
1900-1945'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by...Walter de la Mare Walter de la Mare[five poems]Unknown
1900-1945'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by...William Henry Davies William Henry Davies'Love's Silent Hour' and three other poemsUnknown
1850-1899'Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday the news came of Mrs Gaskell's death. She died suddenly while reading aloud to her daughters'.Elizabeth Gaskell unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Walter Scott's Pen! Comforted a little by reading my o...John Ruskin John Ruskin[notes]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945'Yesterday, I underwent one of the greatest experiences in my life - at a "Poets Reading" in aid of charity. The whole thing made one feel like a bird that has blundered ...Edith Sitwell Robert NicholsDon JuanManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'William Richard Grahame Alexander Pope[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Yet I find wonderful things in Bible'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1900-1945'Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's "King of the Golden River", and I most certainly read that. It is, in...Norman Nicholson John RuskinKing of the Golden RiverPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yet the previous December, after reading my first nine chapters, G. had written to me at Halifax: "Your book, I think, is a very great, a very moving book...powerful, s...George Catlin Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: Book
1700-1799'Yet there are in the "Idler" several papers which shew as much profundity of thought, and labour of language, as any of this great man's writings'. [Boswell mentions num...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonIdler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Yet when the War broke out, I did not clearly understand what was meant by homosexuality, incest or sodomy, and was puzzled by the shadow that clung to the name of Oscar...Vera Brittain Oscar WildeplaysPrint: Unknown


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