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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
 
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Charles Causley Joseph Hocking[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Joseph Hocking[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Joseph HockingRosemary CarewPrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Silas Hocking[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Olive Higgins ProutyStella DallasPrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Marie CorelliSorrows of Satan, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Florence L. BarclayFollowing of the Star, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Amongst all the Letters I have yet seen published, I never saw any so truly elegant, learned, and polite, as those with which your Lordship has condescended to honour yo...Laetitia Pilkington Lord Kingsborough[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking performance it is. Totally dissimilar from Newton on th...Sarah Harriet Burney Alexander KeithEvidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, d...Print: Book
1800-1849'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking performance it is. Totally dissimilar from Newton on th...Sarah Harriet Burney Thomas NewtonDissertations on the Prophecies, which have remark...Print: Book
1800-1849'Amongst various verses, which she insisted on my accepting, she gave me the following lines, which she said she had written as supposing them to be spoken by the Duchess...Charlotte Bury Caroline Lamb'Winter Amusements'Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Amos V. see vv. 10-11, 12, but note in it the special attack on the priesthood in Bethel and Gilgal. Compare ch. IV. 4; V. 5, 6; VII. 10.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Amos)Print: Book
1850-1899'amused myself reading to myself & the youngsters.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Amy Barlow, writing of the late 1890s, recalls how her mother seemed to have a vivid memory of her childhood reading, and would recommend enthusiastically to her daughte...Amy Barlow Elizabeth WetherellThe Old HelmetPrint: Book
1900-1945'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a cupboard. "What a joy to share my bed with Tom Merry ...Amy Gomm Frank Richards[school stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a cupboard. "What a joy to share my bed with Tom Merry ...Amy Gomm Frank Richards[school stories in the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'An account in the papers of Mrs W. Long being married to Rich the Rope dancer, old Billy Long was a fine contrast to him.'Benjamin Newton n/a[newspapers?]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'An account of a Bill having past for the suspension of the habeas Corpus Act [...] I cannot refrain from quoting from one of Gibbons letters to Lord Sheffield in 1792 [q...Benjamin Newton Edward GibbonMiscellaneous works...with memoirs of his lifePrint: Book
1900-1945'An advertisement for the Japanese film of the fall of Singapore, "On to Singapore" announces "Syonan - City of Peace, Plenty and Prosperity".'Thomas Kitching [advertisement]Print: Advertisement
1850-1899'An advertisement of Polly's appeared in the Argus this morning ... There was no appearance in the Argus of the article I took them last night'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper


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