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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'Sent 29 stuff hats to Mr Booth -heard the "Iris" Paper read by Tom, find the country is much agitated at the conduct of ministers.'Tom [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'We got the Iris this morning I copied out of it the petition of the G [?] dispersed thro Germany and Hartman's Soliloquy in imitation of Hamlet.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'We got "The Iris" this morning; it contained an Advertisement from Mr [Sorby?], saying that he intended to resign the school at Midsummer & begged leave to reccomend [si...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1700-1799'We learn from the "Iris" of this morning that the "Wisperer" is just published by J.M.Gomery [James Montgomery].'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispensations of providence... those kinds of books were o...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreThe Shepherd of Salisbury PlainPrint: Book
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 George Bernard ShawThe Shewing up of Blanco PosnetPrint: Book
1700-1799'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...'The Hon. Stephen Digby William FalconerThe ShipwreckPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William FalconerThe ShipwreckPrint: Book
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (December 1815): 'I find myself, this morning, so strangely affected by the perusal of the poem last night, that I feel it is one whic...Isaac D'Israeli George Gordon Lord ByronThe Siege of CorinthManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816): 'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Parisina" also, and he called yesterday to express h...George Gordon Lord ByronThe Siege of CorinthManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to send the early sheets to Blackwood, who proposed to hold a dinner in honour ...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronThe Siege of CorinthPrint: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron (December 1815): 'I tore open the packet you sent me, and have found in it a Pearl. It is very interesting, pathetic, beautiful -- do you k...John Murray George Gordon Lord ByronThe Siege of Corinth / ParisinaManuscript: Unknown, In hand of Anne Isabella, Lady Byron
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poemPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poemPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palate still down.'Samuel Pepys William DavenantThe Siege of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'so home, my wife to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes"; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys William DavenantThe siege of RhodesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday. Very stormy wind + heavy showers too wet to walk about. So bridge. Read A Sign of Four by Conan Doyle.'William Thomas Arthur Conan DoyleThe Sign of FourPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've read "The Silence" once but shall keep it till tomorrow. Certain remarks I keep for a note which I will send you together with the MS. Here I will only say that I ...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe SilenceManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Howard Smith André MauroisThe Silence of Colonel BramblePrint: Book
1900-1945'With nothing else to do, the library queue has grown beyond all bounds. It took me an hour yesterday to get "The Silk Stocking Murders" by A. Berkeley - quite a good det...Thomas Kitching A BerkeleyThe Silk Stocking MurdersPrint: Book


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