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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
 
1500-1599'After priuat prairs I went about the house and read of the bible and wrought tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat prairs I went about the house and wrought amonge my Maides, and hard one read of the Booke of Marters'John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt praier I went to readinge and worke tell diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt praiers I reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt praiers I reed, and kept Companie with Mrs Girlington and diuers that Came'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine: after I Came home and that I had dined, I talked of good matters [with] him, and he reed to me, and after we ... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt prairs I went to my worke, after I had reed of the bible' Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'After reading a good bit I went to bed about 10 A.M.'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'After reading a little, I went some way off to see a poor woman'Elizabeth Fry [n/a][unknown, possibly Bible]Print: Book
1850-1899'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 1885 and 1889, Grant Duff reflected [in diary for 14 A...Grant Duff John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidity, that nothing could be said of it but what was gr...Sydney Smith Robert Ker PorterAccount of the Last Russian CampaignPrint: Book
1800-1849'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidity, that nothing could be said of it but what was gr...Sydney Smith Isaac Milner[Controversy with Marsh on Auxiliary Bible Society...Print: Book
1800-1849'After reading Junius identified with a living character I am pretty well satisfied that Sir P. Francis was the man.'Benjamin Newton John TaylorJunius identified or the identity of JuniusPrint: Book
1800-1849'After reading many private as well as public documents of his age, I am persuaded that he and lord Melville were the two only honest political characters in Scotland' [h...Mr Sharpe unknownPrint: Book, probably manuscripts as well
1700-1799'After reading Pope's "Illiad", the sixteen-year-old Burney confided in her journal that "I was never so charm'd with a poem in my life".'Frances Burney HomerIliadPrint: Book
1800-1849'After reading some of [...] [Mary Tighe's] early poems in manuscript, F[elicia]H[emans] wrote a sonnet, "On Records of Immature Genius"'. Felicia Hemans Mary Tigheearly poemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'After reading Southey's Life and Correspondence, the maintenance of that friendship [between the conservative Southey and the more radical William Taylor] appears to me ...Harriet Martineau Robert SoutheyLife and CorrespondencePrint: Book
1800-1849'After reading the Bride of Lammermoor [Tennyson] wrote the following [reproduces juvenile poem "The Bridal"]'.Alfred Tennyson Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1850-1899'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conjectured that was derogatory to your wife would wound yo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Stuart MillOn LibertyPrint: Book


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