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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
 
1850-1899'The Century in question .. the November one ... contains Howell's very good natured and sensible article about James ...'Robert Louis Stevenson William Dean Howells[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'... I ask you particularly to thank Mr Bunner ... for his notice, which was of that friendly, headlong sort that really pleases an author like what the French call a "sh...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Cuyler Bunner[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Walter de la Mare[book review]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'About a fortnight ago my gums swelled, and some small pimples rose on the inside of my mouth, which threatened to become ulcers; I flew to the lemon juice, which had bee...Joseph Banks Hulme[book with medical directions]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 Rene Aubert de Vertot[book(s) on Revolutions]Print: Book
1900-1945'Arthur very pleased with photo frame. Read booklets by Rev. R F Horton DD.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Robert Forman Horton[booklets prophesying the Advent]Print: PamphletUnknown
1900-1945'Lately I've been reading books about China and Russia. I figure it out this way: I read the newspapers and meet different kinds of people, and they all have to say somet... unknown[books about China and Russia]Print: Book
1800-1849'You bid me tell you what I read; and, in obedience to your commands, I confess myself to be at present under a course of [italics] historical physic [end italics], which...Miss V[-] [books about Roman /ancient history]Print: Book
1900-1945'Illustrative readings from various [Russian] authors were given by members which elicited a considerable amount of discussion'.Members of the XII Book Club [books about Russia or by Russians]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy books given him of old Sir John Cookes by the Arch-...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books about the Navy]Unknown
1800-1849Statement of juvenile offender: "When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportunities of reading then, voyages and such; read the Lif...J.H. [unknown][books about voyages]Print: Book
1700-1799'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did not dine; but he read in the Greek New Testament, and...James Boswell [unknown][books belonging to Johnson]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][books chosen by Mrs Marshall]Print: Book
1900-1945'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls w...young children at the Passmore Edwards SettlementWilliam Thomas Stead[Books for the Bairns]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On other occasions I disappeared into a small stock-room...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknown[Books from the 'Everyman's Library' series]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On other occasions I disappeared into a small stock-room...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknown[Books from the 'Everyman's Library' series]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, odd...Mr Glasser [unknown][books in English]Print: Book
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history an...Ralph Glasser [unknown][books of biography, history, philosophy, etc]Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 25 August 1810, on visit of the Princess of Wales to Strawberry Hill: 'The Princess was very lively, though the company was certainly not very amusin...Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales unknown[books of engravings]Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia [books of European travels]Print: Book


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