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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
 
1600-1699'All but the times of my ordenarie exercises of praier and readinge I was busie takinge order for my going to london, and packinge of thinges'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'All day I have been arranging prints for Grainger's Biography. There is a good story of Jerry White, Cromwell's Chaplain.'William Richard Grahame James GrangerA Biographical History of England ... Adapted to aPrint: Book
1900-1945'All day I read and finished Rosamond Lehmann's novel, The Ballad and the Source, which Logan P.-S. thinks the best novel since Henry James. I daresay he is right and I a...James Lees-Milne Rosamond LehmannThe Ballad and the SourcePrint: Book
1850-1899'All day we sailed along an absolutely barren coast. A tiny fringe of green along the sand and then great mts with nothing but brown scrub upon them. It sometimes doesn't...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[novel in Spanish]Print: Book
1600-1699'All evening at my book; and so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1850-1899'All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Paris to see her [Julia, her daughter, who was unwell] ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Lord Mahon[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'All I can say at all likely to give you any pleasure is, that I read poor dear Charles Lamb's Memoirs and Letters with the utmost delight; & not the less so for seeing s...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles LambLetters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'All I can say is that I am quite enthusiastic about the work ["A Modern Utopia"]. From the first line of the preface to the closing sentence I feel in touch with a more...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells A Modern UtopiaPrint: Book
1700-1799'All I can say is that when seen from the top of a building, from whence the eye takes it in at one view, it does not look nearly so large as it seems to be when you walk...Joseph Banks Francois ValentijnOudt en Nieuw Oost-IndiePrint: Book
1800-1849'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot.John Clare Moore's AlmanackPrint: Pamphlet, almanack
1800-1849'All morng [sic] we sat with books in our hands but not reading much, only talking. After lunch (at 12) I went out with the girls - round the grounds - a good long walk; ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell  Print: Book
1600-1699'all morning at my office shut up with Mr Gibson, I walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from the beginning of the Warr, for preventing the Parliame...Richard Gibson [n/a]Books containing the abstracts of ordersManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'all morning at the office finishing my letter to Sir Rob Brookes, which I did with great content; and yet at noon, when I came home to dinner, I read it over again after...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[letter to Sir Robert Brookes]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'All right, I'll see what I can do. Before I could answer, I had to see the book; and my good father, after trying at all our libraries, bought it for me. I like the book...Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Robert Bulwer-LyttonFables in SongPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'All right, I'll see what I can do....Does the "sans extract" mean that I [italics] simply God-damn-mustn't [end italics] put in an extract. Please explain...'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1700-1799'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that ...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[essays]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that ...James Boswell [n/a]The Universal VisitorPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'all the followinge I went about and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell my time of priuat examenation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'All the letters have been distributed; they have been here only two months. I get my six, two-and-a-half from Joan, two-and-a-half from Brenda and one from Pip, with dat...Thomas Kitching [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'All the mob of Potton made a great riot to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill, and paraded the town with the most hideous yells, accompanying a triumphal car in th...Emily Shore  Print: flags


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