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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'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about ...Lady Caroline Lamb unknown[chinese story]Print: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery [Christian books and missionary tracts]Print: Book, religious tracts
1850-1899'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][chronicle of conquest of the Morea]Print: Book
1700-1799'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion'James Boswell [n/a][Church service]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" ...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Conyers] Middleton[Cicero]Print: Book
1900-1945'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][citation for bravery]Print: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, Willi...Samuel Bamford [classic histories]Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a][Classical latin works in translation]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud for many hours of each day [...] Before breakfast, an... unknown[Classical texts]Print: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield [classics in original languages]Print: Book
1800-1849'Christmas Day. Read several Carols this day from the collection pub. by Parker.'John Cole Parker[Collection of Carols]Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Thomas, First Baron Erskine[Collection of Speeches, perhaps Speeches of the H...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Deladier[collection of speeches]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end un...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Isabel Paterson[column in ] New York Herald Tribune BooksPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th...Thomas Carlyle Moliere [pseud.][Comedies]Print: Book
1900-1945'One day, however, I made a discovery. I could read myself! I was four years old now... and while sprawling on the floor with a comic open at the pictures of Weary Willie...Jack Common [n/a][comic paper]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amiable & showed me a newspaper cutting with a comic poe...Leslie Stephen [a thief] [comic poem]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett [comics -unknown]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I can't but let my Readers see my Vanity, in inserting the following Poems, written to me since I came to [italics] Dublin [end italics], and do assure them, I have as m...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][commendatory verses by various admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.George Eliot [pseud] [possibly] William Blackstone[Commentaries on the laws of England?]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown


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