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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'We read little; my companion has never learnt letters, and I, less fortunate in that respect, having only been able to discover one book in the house, a Spanish "L...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]Libro de Misa [prayer book/liturgy/missal]Print: Book
1800-1849‘...the Court Journal (which by the way, seems to be very good – for nothing – )...The Court Journal must pay uncommon well, before I will rank myself among its familia...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Court JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘You probably have little time for literary labours or I should advise you to write for the Quarterly Theological. It is a very staunch, orthodox work – not ultra in po...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Re...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘I am sorry for the delay which doubtless is owing to the confounded Politics that they stuff the Magazine with, to the great annoyance of Ladies and Liberals; and not ...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘Thanks for Swing and the Athenaeum which is very welcome, and well worth Two-pence’.Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘You probably saw the Tea-table in B[lackwood's Magazine]. but it does not look so well in print as it sounded when Elizabeth Warde listen’d to it. Ladies praise makes ...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘I am sorry that the Athenaeum is no longer publish’d in such a shape that I can get it, for it is well worth two-pence. I can hardly say as much for the Carlisle Patri...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Carlisle PatriotPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘I have an opportunity of seeing papers enough at Mr. Withington’s, the present occupant of Allan Bank, a most worthy Englishman and Tory of Falstaffian dimensions, who...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849‘I know very few people in Leeds. ... The walls of course now plastered with Election puffs and squibs, the newspapers rancorous against one another, but, as far as I c...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][Local posters and newspapers in Leeds related to ...Print: Poster
1800-1849‘The Poems [Hartley’s 1833 Poems], I believe, have not done so far amiss. The Review in the Quarterly I must thank you for. It is far too laudatory for my stomach, and ...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][review of Hartley Coleridge's 1833 Poems in The Q...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘I received the Quarterly [Review] from Mr. Murray. If praise could do me any good, there is enough of it: but I know nothing of that “overweening worship of Wordsworth...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][Review of Hartley Coleridge's 1833 Poems in The Q...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'You have not perhaps seen the new "Gentleman’s Magazine" since it resumed publication. This is the first number—it was sent to me by the Editor Mr Bullen, who asks m...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945 'I owe you my best thanks for the gift of Mrs Cornford’s book of poems which I am delighted to have. I have been away in Wiltshire or would have thanked you soo...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945The Daily Telegraph interview with Mussolini makes me sick. What fools they are. Every word M. said was just vague nonsense: anyone who knows Italians can see how h...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945I have just been reading a rather nice version of Genesis in Arabic. It says that Gabriel was sent to the Earth to bring a bit of clay for the making of Adam: but t...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Genesis)
1900-1945I should like you to read the long article in the December number of Blackwood’s Magazine although it costs 2/6. It gives a very excellent history of the pleasant w...Arthur Morris [n/a] [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read the "Observer" one [a review of "My Life in Sarawak"] on Saturday, and that I do like because it confirms my own opinion of the book. I daresay it was by Si...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have just come from seeing Dr. Tom. More medicines! We had a very long talk and when we came out to the waiting room there was an old patient of his—Sister someb...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]Blue Book [Parliamentary Papers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Tell Arnie [brother] that at Kidwelly I stayed at the Pelican Hotel, where the prices charged me were only 2/3 of those given in the C.T.C. handbook'.Thomas Edward Lawrence [n/a] [n/a]The Cyclists' Touring Club GazettePrint: Serial / periodical, Handbook/Gazette
1900-1945'Will you if you write to Carcassonne tell me what is happening in Turkey: the rubbish here that they call newspapers say one day that movements are taking place amon...Thomas Edward Lawrence [n/a] [n/a]newspapersPrint: Newspaper


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