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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
 
1850-1899'After tea I went to the Athenaeum & read the papers in the reading room'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'after tea I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After tea I went to the Yorick Club & read the papers. In the Evening Herald was a remarkable circular from the Solicitor General to the Honorary Magistrates in which w...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.Percy Shelley and Claire ClairmontLodovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire...Print: Book
1800-1849'After tea S. reads Spencer aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund Spenser[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea sat & smoked while Polly read for a while, soon followed her to bed'Polly Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'After tea sat over the fire and read the Lancet until time to go up to our cafe for dinner.'Harold Upcott The LancetPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After tea this evening I read some dramatic pieces with Harry & played a couple of games of Bezique with Mamma. Smoked several pipes & then went to bed'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama]Print: Book
1800-1849'After tea walked home, and went through, with my family, our usual Sunday evening devotions, consisting of sermon reading and prayers.'John Cole [unknown][sermons]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea went into Melbourne & read the papers at the Yorick'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After tea went to the Club where I ... read for a time then took a walk through the town & came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'after tea went to the Mechanics & read the papers then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'after tea went to the Yorick where I stayed chatting to Jardine smith & Carrington some time. After they left I read an article in Fraser on "The Imperial connection" by...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After tea went with Polly into town & there heard a great commotion in the crowd & number of boys selling the Argus Extraordinary, "Arrival of the English Mail", one vag...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The Extraordinary (Argus)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'.William John Brown Charles Darwin[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'.William John Brown Thomas Henry Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'.William John Brown Alfred, Lord TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1900-1945'After tea, K. [Katharine Cook] & I went up in the side car & spent some time with Wallace. He was reading out of the Sunday School Times ... Most incoherent. K brought h... Sunday School TimesPrint: Serial / periodical


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