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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
 
1700-1799'Not at church all day, neither looked in any book all day except "The Tatler".'Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", in which I find some very agreeable stories, in particular one wherein a beautiful and virtuous young lady is ru...Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", which I think the oftener I read the better I like it. I think I never found the vice of drinking so well explod...Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Came home about 7 o'clock; read several numbers in the 4th volume of "The Tatler".'Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter [n/a]The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "The Tatler", turning over the pages furtively in the ...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Looked over the first Vol. of the "Tatlers"...'Thomas Green Richard SteeleThe TatlerPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt makes more of Moore's letters than they deserve. I ce...John Wilson Croker Leigh HuntThe TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a...Leslie Stephen the Te DeumUnknown
1800-1849'The Tear / Moore' [transcription of text].Mary Groom Thomas MooreThe TearUnknown
1800-1849'The Tear' 'When Friendship or Love' [Epigraph from Gray, not transcribed]Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronThe TearPrint: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 6 April 1869, on fellow spa visitors, Great Malvern: "They are mostly a plain, civil, amiable lot -- addicted to reading the Telegraph and St...visitors staying at Great Malvern The TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read "The Telegraph" in Evans.'John Cole EvansThe TelegraphPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherso...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943 Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.
[...]
5. Kenneth Ni...		Kenneth F. Nicholson The Telephone DirectoryPrint: Book, Or a manuscript copy of some parts of the book
1850-1899'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: 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 William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ...Bernard Kops William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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