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Edward Lloyd : [various titles published by Lloyd]

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 illiterate costermongers when cheap serials are read to them, comments on the story lines they like, characters and illustrations; reading of G.W.M. Reynolds's "Mysteries" and Edward Lloyd's penny bloods

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Lloyd George : 

'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fixed and fastened on, that sentence wherein he tells us that we have grasped our niblick and struck out for the open course.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Newspaper

  

Lloyd : Lloyd's Penny Times

"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey      Print: Newspaper

  

Charles Lloyd : Nugae Canorae

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

William Lloyd : The late apology in behalf of the papists, reprinted and answered in behalf of the royallists

'I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the "Apology for Papists", which did like me mightily, it being a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever I read in my life, and glad I am that I read it.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

David Lloyd : Memories of the lives ... of those noble ... personages

'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the late times - which I will buy; it seems well writ.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Unknown

 

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