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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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert AndersonThe Works of the British PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert AndersonThe Works of the British PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 February, 1802: 'Read Smollet's life.'Dorothy Wordsworth Robert AndersonSmollett's LifePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Anderson [Editor]The Works of the British PoetsPrint: Book
1600-1699'Almanzor is as fresh in my memory, as if I had visitted his Tombe but Yesterday, though it bee at least seven yeare agon since. . . . I made his Story such a one to mee,...Dorothy Osborne Robert AshleyAlmansor the Learned and Victorious King that Conq...Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read Hermsprong'Mary Godwin Robert BageHermsprong: Or Man as he is not. A novel. By the A...Print: Book
1800-1849'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'.Mary Godwin Robert BageMan as He Is. A NovelPrint: Book
1700-1799'[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson laid hold of it; and the chapter on baptism happenin...James Boswell Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson laid hold of it; and the chapter on baptism happenin...Samuel Johnson Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading a letter from my father in which he offers me to come to London, [underline] what [end underline] a temptation, but I believe it to be much better fo...Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of French, went to see Bob, read in Barclay's Apology for s...Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'I went to see Mrs Norman and read in Barclay's Apology'Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'read in Barclay's Apology in the evening'Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'read a little in Barclay'Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1800-1849'In a letter addressed to me, dated Newcastle Jan 5 1829 from his son, Robert Elliot Benick, thanking me for a copy of 'The Scarborough Souvenir', he writes "this would h...John Cole Robert BenickletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Robert BlairThe GravePrint: Book
1700-1799'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him; for though it is not equal throughout, and is seldo...Samuel Johnson Robert Blair'The Grave, a Poem'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him; for though it is not equal throughout, and is seldo...James Boswell Robert Blair'The Grave, a Poem'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'When I was living in Sallie's home one of the male boarders who called himself a Socialist showed me some articles in a Sunday paper written by Robert Blatchford, "Nunqu...Hannah Mitchell Robert BlatchfordNunquamPrint: Newspaper
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1900-1945		'When, a year later, a senior apprentice -a Clarion Scout -gave me a copy of the penny edition of Blatchford's "Merrie England" of which he had sold a large quantity "rou...Thomas A. Jackson Robert BlatchfordMerrie EnglandPrint: Book


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