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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
 
1800-1849After tea procured 'The Hull Advertiser' and looked over the Advertisement of a Bookselling & Stationary Business to be disposed of at Scarborough.John Cole The Hull AdvertiserPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of...Patricia Beer L.M. MontgomeryAnne of Green GablesPrint: Book
1900-1945After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of...Patricia Beer L.M. MontgomeryEmily of New MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'asked Florence [Hardy] to read aloud to him, chapter by chapter, the manuscript of ...Florence Hardy Thomas HardyMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'found a piece of paper on which Hardy had copied out "Fin de Fete" [by Charlotte Me...Thomas Hardy Charlotte Mew"Fin de Fete"Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799after [a morning walk] I Read the News.John Yeoman  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Afternoon and evening, reading Gifford's History[of the] French Revolution. The fate of Louis xvi soffiiently points oot the instability of human greatness. In his first ...Adam Mackie C.H. GiffordHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1700-1799Afternoon read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. of Prayers not being granted immediately.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc.Gertrude Savile 'B.L' OR 'A Lady' Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had mPrint: Book
1800-1849Afternoon reading Rollin's HistoryAdam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Afternoon reading Rollin's history of Antiochus Epiphanus, who persecuted the Jews.Adam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Afternoon reading Rollin, wherein instruction may be learned. Indulge not in ease. It enfeebles the body and ,although one could afford luxury, it should not be indulged...Adam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'.Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1850-1899Aged 19, Alice Thompson '...engaged in ... earnest reading and note-taking ... from Lewis's Aristotle.'Alice Thompson AristotleunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to 'Miss Holloway (of Spilsby)', 'about her cousin Miss Jean Ingelow's poems, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings': 'I have only just returne...Alfred Tennyson Jean IngelowA Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and FeelingsPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to 'Mr Malan', 14 November 1883: 'I can assure you I am innocent as far as I am aware of knowing one line of Statius; and of Ovid's "Epicedion" I never...Alfred Tennyson Ovid worksPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Charles Kingsley (1853): 'Part of the conclusion [of Hypatia] seems to me particularly valuable. I mean the talk of the Christianized Jew to the cla...Alfred Tennyson Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to Emily Sellwood (1839): 'I am housed at Mr Wildman's, an old friend of mine in these parts: he and his wife are two perfectly honest Methodists [...]...Alfred Tennyson 'anecdotes of Methodist ministers'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to Emily Sellwood (1839): 'I took up this morning an unhappy book of English verse by a Welshman, and read therein that all which lies at present swamp...Alfred Tennyson 'book of English verse by a Welshman'Print: Book


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