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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'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he s...John Harris Henry Kirke WhiteThe Remains of Henry Kirke WhitePrint: Book
1800-1849'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he s...Mary Smith Henry Kirke WhiteThe Remains of Henry Kirke WhitePrint: Book
1800-1849'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he s...Thomas Carter Henry Kirke WhiteThe Remains of Henry Kirke WhitePrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 May 1818:] 'Read Remains of H. K. White.'Elizabeth Firth Henry Kirke WhiteThe Remains of Henry Kirke White, of NottinghamPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'.Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyThe Remains of Henry Kirke White. With an account ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel SandfordThe Remains of the Late Right Reverend Daniel Sand...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that Bristol seems preparing for it. A pamphlet propose...Robert Southey The Reply of the Delegates of the Several Parishes...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'I am now reading the Oxford Report.'Charles Darwin The Report of the second meeting of the British As...Print: Unknown
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent PlatoThe RepublicPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved


[...]

4. The Subject ...

Alfred Rawlings PlatoThe RepublicPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved


[...]

4. The Subject ...

Janet Rawlings PlatoThe RepublicPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72, Shinfield Road, 14th November 1942
Arnold Joselin in the Chair

2. In the absence of the Secretary, the Treasurer [Bruce Dilks] t...		Arnold Joselin PlatoThe RepublicPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72, Shinfield Road, 14th November 1942
Arnold Joselin in the Chair

2. In the absence of the Secretary, the Treasurer [Bruce Dilks] t...		Roger Moore PlatoThe RepublicPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72, Shinfield Road, 14th November 1942
Arnold Joselin in the Chair

2. In the absence of the Secretary, the Treasurer [Bruce Dilks] t...		Harry Stevens [Unidentified acting secretary of the XII Book Club] The RepublicManuscript: Notebook
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel: Prisoner questions witness Raven Q: Pray, did you read no.17 of 'The Republican' before y...Henry Baldwin Raven The RepublicanPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...Members of Radical Reform group The RepublicanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read the Restoration'Mary Shelley George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham VilliersThe Restoration; or Right will take placePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memories and Studies, Walter de la Mare's The Return -- sup...Edward Morgan Forster Walter de la MareThe ReturnPrint: Book
1900-1945'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I read straight off, mainly because I could not take my ...Russell ThorndykeThe return of Dr. SynPrint: Book
1800-1849William Charles Macready, in diary entry for 3 August 1840: 'Read Browning's play [The Return of the Druses], and with the deepest concern I yield to the belief that...William Charles Macready Robert BrowningThe Return of the DrusesManuscript: Unknown


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