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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'Tried stout for lunch. At 10 p.m. had stout and strawberries and cream given me (after it was dark) by two of the sisters. God bless them! "P.U.O." seems rather a good i...Robert Lindsay Mackay ['some novels']Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1850-1899'Miss Bronte in one of her letters to you (Mama [italics] thinks [end italics] written in the year 1835,) gives you some advice as to what books to read. Mama wants to kn...Charlotte Bronte [unknown]['standard works'; not novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Evening - suitable readings'.John Cole unknown['suitable readings']Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived...'William Richard Grahame n/a['The English Papers']Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well' Samuel Johnson [unknown]['The Italian' - unknown text]Unknown
1800-1849'At the Athenaeum I read the papers and ... Advice to a Young Man and Padre.'William Richard Grahame n/a['the papers']Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen to music.'Antonia White [unknown]['trash']Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, "but I asked him on the wro...Michael Stapleton anon['twopenny bloods']Print: Book
1800-1849'There is a fine cover on one of the Registers which I must preserve, it has been a Wrapper to a No of Hogarth's works, there are such droll figures on it as I can scarce...Robert Sharp n/a['Wrapper to a No of Hogarth's works' OR [cover toPrint: Advertisement
1900-1945'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well bro...Charles Evans John Keats[1820 poems]Print: Book
1850-1899"I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th century sermons. Lord! how dull they are - almost as dull...Leslie Stephen [18th and 19th century sermons]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'Mary Shelley Horace[1st Ode]Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature ...George Gordon, Lord Byron [unknown][30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.Mary Shelley Horace[3rd Ode]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the R...George Eliot [pseud.] John Bright[4th speech on India]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Edmund [??] Barrow[??] Speech on conciliation with the American colo...Print: Unknown
1900-1945'dont forget daily paper every day if you can for I look forward to my paper. we are having it hot out here just. I expect it warm at home now. we expect leave this mount...John William Gower [?Brighton daily newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school , or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary Wollstonecroft?s book, which is so run after here,...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jean Jacques Rousseau[?Emile]Print: Book
1900-1945'It was a bad night — a high gale and rain. Wallace had ridden into Amiens and brought back a paper. The Germans have retired on a front of eighty-two miles and no one kn...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [?French newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry July 13, 1779 'The sublime and solid consolations which true religion and right reason afford, are all your own and, tho? well assured that there is ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Edward?] [Young?][?Night Thoughts]Print: Book


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