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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
 
1850-1899'Attended a meeting of the Amateur Society in the evening when the Play to be performed was read throughout.'menHendrik ConscienceThe Poor GentlemanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Attended rehearsal a little business done amidst a great deal of noise, my companions in the performance are in general very rowdy gents, after the play had been read fo...menHendrik ConscienceThe Poor GentlemanPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read in the day part of Burkitt's "Poor Man's Help or Young Man's Guide", which I think the best book I ever read of the size.'Thomas Turner William BurkittThe poor man's help and the young man's guidePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph Blanco WhiteThe Poor Man's Preservative against PoperyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Celia Burrow Mary WebbThe Poplar TreeUnknown
1850-1899'I had almost as soon have it in the Portfolio, as the Saturday; the P. is so nicely printed and I am gourmet in type.'Robert Louis Stevenson Philip Gilbert Hamerton (editor)The Portfolio: An Artistic PeriodicalPrint: Serial / periodical
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
1900-1945'24th February 1929 (Sunday) Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? writer I know and this book is as good as his best. I...Gerald Moore Oscar WildeThe Portrait of Dorian GrayPrint: Book
1500-1599[MARGINALIA]:'The discouerie of his mistress, a false diamant. His sicknes, & Jealosie did not help the matter, but did marre all. Woomen loue men: & care not for pore ha...Gabriel Harvey George GascoigneThe PosiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Auguste ComteThe Positive Philosophy of Auguste ComtePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed".Katherine Mansfield DostoevskyThe PossessedPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about him, except playfully, in print. I got fairly stuck i...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837: 'I agree with you in thinking Pickwick admirable -- but I have not read every number [...] what is striking ...Elizabeth Barrett Charles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We find ''Pickwick'' not at all too low for our taste, and it reads aloud much better than to oneself.'Emma Wedgewood and Wedgewood/Allen familyCharles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Here I have been reading any amount of rubbish: among them (the rubbishes) two quite admirable shockers by John (Prester) Buchan: THE POWERHOUSE and THE THIRTY NIN...Francis Brett Young John BuchanThe Power-HousePrint: Book
1600-1699'I went into old William Hasleden's in Ashton; his wife was sicke and I read in the Practice of Pietie, and as I was reading she gave up the ghost.'Roger Lowe Lewis BaylyThe Practice of PietyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". ...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe PrairiePrint: Book
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
1850-189924 June 1853: 'Mr. White [doctor] came early and found Mr. Schreiber much the same [with feverish illness]. He had asked again for me and I went up. He begged me to pr...Lady Charlotte Guest The Prayer BookPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The Prayer of Luther at his death'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeThe Prayer of Luther at his deathPrint: Book


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