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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
 
1700-1799I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1800-1849I see by the paper that Mr Canning is indeed very ill...Robert Sharp [a newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849I see Lord Liverpool has been taken very ill, some of the farmers were so devoted as to say that providence has interfered so far as to put a stop to any alteration to th...Robert Sharp [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849I send you by George (who in Fred?s absence on business, is kind enough to be the bearer of this) the volume which contains the Life of Savage. I have turned down the lea...Charles Dickens Samuel JohnsonAn account of the life of Mr. Richard SavagePrint: Book
1800-1849I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my spirits oil without which, its own friction against it...Anne Lister David Henry UrquhartCommentaries on classical learningPrint: Book
1900-1945I should like you to read the long article in the December number of Blackwood’s Magazine although it costs 2/6. It gives a very excellent history of the pleasant w...Arthur Morris [n/a] [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it.Thomas Carlyle David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called...Thomas Carlyle Edward GibbonDecline & Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one might say the same of Miss Marie Corelli, who, by the...Margaret Oliphant Marie Corelli Print: Book
1900-1945I think the 'C.N.' is fine. It is bound to make you respected among those whose respect alone is a comfort in moments of depression. For myself, I have been more impres...Arnold Bennett Margaret KennedyThe Constant NymphPrint: Book
1900-1945I thought I was better yesterday and that a little walk would improve matters and went and sketched by the old wall - came back for lunch, lay on my terrace reading...Freya Stark VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849I told you I had seen the "Quarterly Review". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since I ceased to be one of its admirers. The writers pos[...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849I took up the Economy of Human Life, and was much pleased with the simplicity, ease and elegance of its style. The Biographical Sketch of Dodsley is drawn with much beaut...John Horrocks Ainsworth Robert DodsleyThe Economy of Human LifePrint: Book
1700-1799I used to plod at the French Grammar as I sat at my work, the book being fixed before me I was diligent also in learning all I could after I left off working at night.Francis Place unknown [French grammar]Print: Book
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ...Francis Place Helvetius Print: Book
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ...Francis Place Jean-Jacques Rousseau Print: Book
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ...Francis Place Voltaire Print: Book
1800-1849I wanted to have sent you a translation of the Epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's, and inserted in Piozzi's anecdotes - but my father has lent, &...Sarah Harriet Burney Hester Lynch PiozziAnecdotes of the Late Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945I was also pained but amused at the pink, paper- bound novels that went about: I asked my neighbour to read me a paragraph, and this was it: "'Good God,' said Susann...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown romance novel]Print: Book


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