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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
 
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, J...Thomas Carter James Arminius[works on theology and account of his life]Print: Book
1800-1849?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, J...Thomas Carter James MontgomeryLectures on poetryPrint: Book
1800-1849?As usual all the good I saw in my work, before it was printed, is now vanished from my sight and I remember only its faults. All the authors of both sexes, and artists t...Amelia Opie Amelia Opieher own works as they are publishedPrint: Book
1700-1799?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?Amelia Opie Mme de Genlis Print: Book
1700-1799?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?Amelia Opie William Hayley Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?At length, "Robinson Crusoe" ? that ever-exciting day dream of boys ? fell in our way. I read it to him, as I had done the others, and for a long time both Sam?s ideas a...Samuel Bamford Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1700-1799?Being now became a constant attendant of the gent?n ringers once or twice a week, I ? began to aspire towards ringing a longer peal, for w?ch purpose I wrote the changes...John Marsh members of the Society of London Scholars, J.D. and C.M. Campanologia improved; or, the Art of ringing made...Print: Book
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt [n/a]British ControversionalistPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt [n/aPopular EducatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt [n/a]Educational CoursePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt Historical educatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been Johnson?s brother? I cannot be simply eulogistic if the ...Leslie Stephen James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.? ?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal of any of his long poems. There is something in the...Charles Maturin George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1850-1899?By the way, dear, I must send you "Consuelo"; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a book that that could divert me, when I thought myse...Robert Louis Stevenson George SandConsueloPrint: Book
1800-1849?Charlotte cordials me twice a day with Cecilia, which she reads charmingly, and which entertains me as much at the third reading as it did at the first.?Maria Edgeworth Fanny BurneyCeciliaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?Cumberland attempted and failed to revive the classical English novel. We sit down in fact by Cumberlands? fireside and listen to his long dull stories as we would to th...Charles Robert Maturin Richard CumberlandArundelPrint: Book
1800-1849?Dear Sir, if you had condescended to write a few lines with these copy Books I should have had greater pleasure in reading them at present I cannot even guess what they...Lady Caroline Lamb [unknown][copy books]Manuscript: Copy Books
1850-1899?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this nightmare is Wordsworth? I used not to care for him es...Leslie Stephen William Wordsworth Print: Book
1800-1849?Dr Milligen?s paper, he must re-write the last half of it; it has cost me three hours this morning, and I can make nothing of it. I think very little of the gentleman wh...Charles Dickens John Gideon MillingenThe Portrait GalleryManuscript: Unknown


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