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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
 
1700-1799Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Eachard; a book with much truth and much witt, but too l...Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1700-1799After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'.Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Robert MalthusThe Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restric...Print: Book
1800-18497/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profess...Amelia Opie Hugh TwyfordThe Grounds of Holy LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Are Vinagradoff on "The Growth of the Manor" and J. H. Round on "Scutage" still the authorities for this remote and difficult period, I wonder, or has some incisive and ...Vera Brittain VinagradoffThe Growth of the ManorPrint: Book, Unknown
1700-1799'My wife read the 20th and 21st numbers of "The Guardian" to me, which I think extremely good, the first of which shows how indispensable a duty forgiveness is and the la...Peggy Turner The GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Depar...Mary Birch [n/a]The GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1.Gertrude Savile Abraham CowleyThe Guardian: A Comedy Acted before Prince CharlesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Guided Life'Sarah Good George BodyThe Guided LifePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 1 February 1849:

'The parcel [of books, from Williams] came yesterday [...] The choice of books is perfect...		Anne Brontë Frederika BremerThe H— FamilyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'The Bridgewater treatises seem to me (I have not read them all) very unequal [...] They are not consiste...Elizabeth Barrett William KirbyThe Habits and Instincts of AnimalsPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Mrs C[atherine]. F. G. Gore, 27 August 1850:

'The book had for me its own peculiar value as a work often heard of and long wished for: I ...		Charlotte Brontë Catherine GoreThe HamiltonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just seen the Pound pamphlet though Farrar & Rinehart never took the trouble to send me a copy. I think it looks fine and is a tribute not only to Mr. Pound but...Ford Madox Ford Archibald MacLeishThe Hamlet of A. MacLeishPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House, LP. 21.10.36
    E. B. Castle in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

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<...		Victor Alexander G. K. ChestertonThe Hammer of God, from The Innocence of Father Br...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Friendship like love is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame” Gay.' This is followed by lines clearly inspi...Catherine Austen John GayThe Hare and Many FriendsUnknown
1800-1849[...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & Greek Iambb.William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard ...Print: 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] 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'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Haunted and the HauntersPrint: Book
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunt...George Eliot (pseud) Charles DickensThe Haunted ManPrint: Unknown, could have been book or serial


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