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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
 
1850-189925 November 1879, following account of husband's attendance at Conservative Party dinner at Poole, and late return home: 'It must have been 1/2 past 2 ere I was in bed...Lady Charlotte Schreiber PsalmPrint: Book
1850-189926 June 1853: 'Went to Mr. Schreiber before going to Church [...] I certainly thought him weaker and less well. I read and prayed as usual. How I got through it I cann...Lady Charlotte Guest  Print: Book
1900-194527 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional picturesqueness.'Desmond MacCarthy William Makepeace ThackerayMemoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyPrint: Unknown
1850-189927 June 1853: 'After breakfast [...] Mrs. Schreiber [visiting her sick son Charles] asked me if I would read to the invalid, which at her request I could not refuse to...Lady Charlotte Guest The Prayer BookPrint: Book
1900-194527 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2 days ago at Lane End [...] She was in her 91st year. A more composed, & outwar...Virginia Woolf notice of death of Sarah Emily DuckworthPrint: Newspaper
1850-189927 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of sounding the reveille at 4 o'clock in the morning [...] ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Benjamin DisraeliSybil, or The Two NationsPrint: Book
1850-189927 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of sounding the reveille at 4 o'clock in the morning [...] ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Benjamin DisraeliSybil, or The Two NationsPrint: Book
1800-184927 Nov 1848 to 17 Apr 1849: visits the inmates in ship hospital to read Scriptures to them every morning.R.W. Gibbs [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-194529 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas ...Philip Morrell Philip MorellLetter to John Middleton Murry regarding his revie...Unknown
1900-194529 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas ...Philip Morrell Siegfried SassoonLetter to Philip Morrell regarding his defence of ...Unknown
1900-194529 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas fo...Philip Morrell John Middleton MurryReview of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and O...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-189929 March 1880: 'I had one of my wakeful nights and read a great deal of the Life of Marguerite de Valois, Philip's Queen.'Lady Charlotte Schreiber Life of Marguerite de ValoisPrint: Book
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
1850-18993 April 1854: 'At Basingstoke I got The Times, where I expected to find a very violent tirade against Henry Layard [Lady Charlotte's cousin, an M.P.], but the article ...Lady Charlotte Guest report on Parliamentary speech of Henry LayardPrint: Newspaper
1850-18993 April 1887: 'Today I have been tempted to open old journals of 54 years ago. Many of the circumstances to which allusion is made in them, are now forgotten, and al...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charlotte Bertie Guestjournals of c.1833Manuscript: Unknown
1850-18993 November 1857: 'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons [i.e. Charles Hay, and Julia Margaret Cameron]. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Ten...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1800-18493 pp of ms at the end of v.1 appear to be brief notes abstracted from details in the text. Each page is ruled and divided into 3 columns headed, 'Substance', 'Symptoms', ...Dr Sibbald Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure OrfilaA general system of toxicology, or, a treatise on ...Print: Book
1850-18994 April 1887: 'Woke early and resumed the reading [from 3 April] of the old journal. What strikes me most is that I speak several times of being tired, and once of h...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charlotte Bertie Guestjournals Manuscript: Unknown
1900-19454 March 1918: 'I found a silent group at the [1917] Club, all men, & unknown to me, with the exception of Alix who sat still as a statue reading one of Berty Russell's ...Alix Sargant-Florence Bertrand RussellunknownPrint: Book
1900-19455 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred upon an afternoon reading in the garden. I happened to read Wordsworth; the...Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798'Print: Book


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