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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'After Tea I went into town & spent an hour at the Mechanics saw some of the English Comic Journals the other magazines had not been opened out.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][English comic periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I rose at 5 O'clock, and going to a small plantation that overlooked the Jed I learned all I ever knew of English Grammar. At that time grammar was not taught in such of...Robert White anon[English Grammar]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[English History and Law]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[English history in reign of George III]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey [English history]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 [English history]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince was retiring from the armee of Conde... [the full st...Eugenia Wynne [n/a][English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
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...Mrs Glasser [n/a][English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is the first English Newspaper (except Galignani's Paris...George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a[English newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'During the period of our captivity at Munden the time passed more heavily, I think, than at any later period, owing to the fact that we had practically no reading matter...Horace Gray Gilliland unknown unknown[English novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'The English student said that he had read an English novel in which a similar idea was suggested. One German was very much annoyed at hearing that the idea had been put ... [unknown][English novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went down to the Mechanics Institute this evening, the Library was shut up, found however all the English periodicals on the table of the Reading Room, came home & went ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][English periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; nor did I omit History, Voyages, Travels, Natural H...James Lackington unknown[English poets]Print: Book
1900-1945'I'm still in hospital but I've made a very rapid cure (I was pretty bad when I came) and I hope they will let me go back to Basrah in a day or two. I've been quite extra...Gertrude Bell Gilbert Murray[English verse translations of Greek plays]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday - the second seem...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[epigram on J. W. Ward]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[epigram on J. W. Ward]Unknown
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a translation of an Epitaph which Lord Elibank had written i...Samuel Johnson Lord Elibank[Epitaph on his Lady]Manuscript: Unknown
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a translation of an Epitaph which Lord Elibank had written i...Mr Dyer Lord Elibank[Epitaph on his Lady]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And so to the Chapel and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wottons stone, with this Epitaph - "Hic Jacet primus hujus Sententiae Author. Disputandi pruritus fit ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][epitaph on memorial stone]Manuscript: Graffito
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 11 January 1813: 'I have been looking over my Kinsham premises which are close to a church and churchyard full of the most facetious Epitaphs I e...George Gordon, Lord Byron [epitaphs]Manuscript: tombstone epitaphs


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