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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
 
1500-1599'after I had supped, I reed of grenhame, and se went to bed'Margaret Hoby Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and hard Auerill reed of Grenham, and then praied'Euerill Aske Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after, I hard Mr Rhodes Read of Grenhame, and then I praied and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after, I wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Grenhame, and so praied priuatly and then went to bed'Richard Rhodes Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I Came home I hard Mr Ardington Read of Grenhame vnto me'Mr Ardington Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of Grenhame'Richard Rhodes Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and then I hard Margaret Rhodes reed of Mr Grenhm'Margaret Rhodes Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read'Margaret Hoby Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day it pleased god to blesse my reading and medetation, and, in the afternone my hearinge of Mr Vrpith: after, I Came home and Caused Mr Stillington to Read of Gren...Mr Stillington Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which she read and re-read with absorbed delight, from Hak...Rose Macaulay Richard HakluytVoiages, and Discoveries of the English NationPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Richard HakluytunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Sunday 8 December 1929: 'It was the Elizabethan prose writers I loved first & most wildly, stirred by Hakluyt, which father lugged home [from library] for me [...] He mus...Virginia Stephen Richard HakluytunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'When I came out of ye pulpit I read a letter from Mr Harlakenden wherein he writes excellent news from Scarborough taking by storme the sand, Church, 120 ships, 32 pie...Ralph Josselin Richard Harlakenden[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'In the even read a sermon preached at this church on the 1st of August 1716 by the Rev. Mr Richard Haworth on the wonders of providence in the defence of the reformation...Thomas Turner Richard Haworth[Sermon]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'That would be in the year 1852, when I was fifteen. About the same time I read "The White Slave" and the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. Thus began a keen, lasting ...Thomas Burt Richard HildrethThe white slave, or memoirs of a fugitivePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 19 October 1837: 'At night, read some of "Archy Moore." A terrible story, which stirred me deeply [...] It is truer than any slave-story I ev...Harriet Martineau Richard HildrethArchy MoorePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard HookerWorksPrint: Book
1600-1699'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and lo...Samuel Pepys Richard HookerOf the lawes of ecclesiastical politiePrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Then...Samuel Pepys Richard HookerWorks... in eight books of ecclesiastical polityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'John Ruskin Richard Hooker [?][unknown]Print: Book


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