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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
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the storm may be gathering round/ There is one ! who can s...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anonymous[untitled]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'This is a very interesting journal and I read it with a particular pleasure derived both from the matter and from the expression of the writer's personality.'Joseph Conrad Christopher Sandeman[untitled]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945(1) 'We have all been plunged in misery here for the last week because no one can remember the context or the author of a quotation that we all know as well as our own ...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling[Untitled]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday...Ford Madox Ford Harry Hensen[untraced review of Ford's 'The Last Post']Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Just reading a book called Us and the Americans ... what they do not understand, and what they like. Our gardens impress everyone.'Vere Hodgson Anon Anon[Us and the Americans]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the 'Book of Common Prayer'". DR. ADAMS, (in a very earn...Samuel Johnson [various books of prayer]Print: Book
1700-1799"The habits and tastes of Mr Opie were, happily, very inexpensive... [he and his wife] spent the evening hours in converse ... reading with her books of amusement or inst...John Opie [various books, fiction in particular]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lombardy -- English, Italian, French, and Latin. Read ...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[various books]Print: Book
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...elder children of Anne RomillyMaria Edgeworth[various books]Print: Book
1800-1849'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English magazines for Mr Tait's customers, as also a few copies...James Glass Bertram [unknown][various English periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Nor must I omit to mention the obligations I owe to some essays written by the late Rev. Thomas Scott and which were given me by my master. I do not remember their exact...Thomas Carter Rev. Thomas Scott[various essays]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not onl...Philip Larkin [unknown][various fiction works in his father's library]Print: Book
[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, T...questionaire respondent [unknown][various history and biography]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am indeed highly delighted with the magazine as I well may for in all my life I never saw a more original miscellany. I think the letter from THE GOTH the shrewdest an...James Hogg John Wilson[various items in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'As to curious MSS, there is no such thing here; no varieties, but dull charters of religious houses, and canting lives of Presbyterian ministers. whatever the Bannatyne ...Mr Sharpe [various MS letters, religious charters and poems]Manuscript: various
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out Waverley and the Guy M[annering] -- and the Antiqua...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[various novels]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in every form of abuse 'insufferably dull' 'style offensiv...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [various periodicals: reviews of Gaskell's 'Ruth']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the...James Hogg Thomas Gillespie[various pieces in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine,...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I had brought with me a great bundle of Scotch magazines and newspapers, in which his "Journey to the Western Islands" was attacked in every mode; and I read a great par...James Boswell [n/a][various Scottish magazine reviews of Johnson's 'J...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite...anon Edward Lloyd[various titles published by Lloyd]Print: Serial / periodical


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