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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
 
1850-189929 March 1880: 'I have not read very much since I came here, but have finished Miss Freer's memoirs of that bold, bad man, Henri Quatre. When one reads of such doings ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Freermemoir of Henri IVPrint: Book
1850-189912 April 1880: 'Towards the evening there came a telegram from Mr. Drysdale, drawing attention to a notice in the Echo. C[harles]. S[chreiber] was out, but I sent for ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber report on Liberal petition against return of Charl...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Sunday morning, as I was out getting chocolate, I found two new manifestoes on the walls. One from a private person, editor of a Radical journal, calling on the people t...Robert Louis Stevenson By or on behalf of Edme-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon[political manifesto]Print: Poster, election posters.
1850-1899'I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himself.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas StevensonChristianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testi...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'"The Omadhaun" was very funny by the Lord; I saw Constable who said both Payn and Kegan Paul had very highly lauded you.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'The Omadhaun at the Queen's'. Print: Serial / periodical, Account of an Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan.
1850-1899'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber GreenHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Junius LettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Of course like everybody else I was a reader of the "Singapore Free Press" which was the [underlined] paper of the East as between Rangoon and Shanghai.'Joseph Conrad Singapore Free PressPrint: Newspaper
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourse...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourse...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourse...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1850-189918 November 1884: 'Ivor [son] went to attend a Conservative meeting summoned by Lord Salisbury to settle to new programme [for the Franchise Bill], invited by Gladst...Lady Charlotte Schreiber reports on talks towards Franchise BillPrint: Newspaper
1850-18991 December 1884, from Canford: 'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature drawing in water colours of one of the fine pictures ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber CookeMemoirsPrint: Book
1850-18991 December 1884, from Canford: 'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature drawing in water colours of one of the fine pictures ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Froudelife of Thomas CarlylePrint: Book
1850-189920 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, M...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Thackeray'sketch [of Maria Edgeworth]'Print: Unknown
1850-189920 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, M...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Thackeray'sketch [of Anna Laetitia Barbauld]'Print: Unknown
1850-189920 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, M...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Thackeray'sketch [of Amelia Opie]'Print: Unknown
1850-189921 August 1886: 'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me to decide on any change, and yet I am always eager...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Thomas Babington MacauleyEssay on AtterburyPrint: Book
1850-189921 August 1886: 'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me to decide on any change, and yet I am always eager...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Thomas Babington MacauleyHistoryPrint: Book
1850-18996 December 1886: 'I have just come in from Regent's Park, where, notwithstanding a bitter wind, I went and read my [Divine] service. Sunday is always such a sad day ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Divine servicePrint: Book


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