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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[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with madam - sometimes I read aloud from some work of hist...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we required, at the sum above named; and thus, for six...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][various]Print: Book
1900-1945[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Flaubert when he was around 15 or 16 and] 'He afterwards admitted that his favourite character in fiction was Emma Bovary.'Alfred Hitchcock Gustav FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Marie Corelli's "The Sorrows of Satan" in 1920/21 in preparation for helping to make a film of it which was afterwards abandoned.]Alfred Hitchcock Marie CorelliThe Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sunday 21 November 1841]. [...] Read Knight's Life of Colet. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Samuel KnightLife of Dr John ColetPrint: Book
1900-1945[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I...Hilary Spalding Edwyn Robert BevanJerusalem under the High Priests: five lectures on...Print: Book
1900-1945[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity.William Ewart Gladstone Edward BurtonTestimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divi...Print: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard ...Print: Book
1900-1945[symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic word.'Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.'William Makepeace Thackeray Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.'William Makepeace Thackeray Edward Bulwer Lytton Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir Henri Bergson Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir [probably] Georges-Eugene Sorel Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir Havelock Ellis Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir John Galsworthy Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir Joseph Conrad Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir James Joyce Print: Book


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