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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
 
1600-1699'and in the afternone I went to priuatt prairs and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]MustaphaPrint: Book
1600-1699'and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'And in the evening strength was given me with a very large party to speak a little on the subject of slavery and then finished with a short lively Scripture reading'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'And in the garden reading "Faber fortunae" with great pleasure. So home to bed.'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitaePrint: Book
1800-1849'And Mr Hastings - I am quite delighted with what such a Man writes about it ["Pride and Prejudice"]. - Henry sent him the Books after his return from Daylesford.'Warren Hastings Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1600-1699'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'Samuel Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'Elizabeth Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'And now for the best jest so far in Changi: the editors of "The Changi Guardian" suddenly have their cells turned inside out this morning. They are sent for. We all wond...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'And now I have taken up an old story, begun years ago; and I have now rewritten all I had written of it then and mean to finish it. What I have lost and gained is odd. A...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonA Country DanceManuscript: Earlier draft of one of his stories.
1900-1945'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very French it is too and yet with something individual-- and...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonLe Nègre aux Etats-UnisPrint: Book
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...elder children of Anne RomillyMaria Edgeworth[various books]Print: Book
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...children of Anne RomillyMaria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1850-1899'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my first text at I Corinthians VII. 1. And yet the second...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Corinthians)Print: Book
1900-1945'And of all the men who write today it is only Hueffer who writes for love[...]. I took up the "H[eart]of [the]C[ountry]" which was lying there and opening it at hazard I...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Heart of the Country: A Survey of Modern Land ...Print: Book
1900-1945'And on the subject of Wells, his book on the United States is quite smart. He has understood a heap of fundamentally unintelligible things. That's the purpose of an imag...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells The Future in America: A search after realitiesPrint: Book


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