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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'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hurting" people makes them worse. 281, 7 &c.'John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read geology'John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.'John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1700-1799I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly...Francis Place [geometry text]Print: Book
1850-1899'Began Schrader's German Mythology'George Eliot [pseud] Eberhard Schrader[German Mythology]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'We were always allowed to take in the German newspapers, and for a short time by the courtesy of a highly placed gentleman, a few copies of The Times and some ill...Lorimer John Austin [German newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; but at present I submit to it with equanimity, and e...Thomas Carlyle unknown[German novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][German poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Erich had a little book which he greatly valued. In order to cheer my captivity he showed this book to me. When I saw the way Erich used to linger over its pages at nigh...Desmond Malone unknown unknown[German pornography]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: '[after going on walk] I got tea when I reached home, and read German till about 9 o'clock.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknown[German text/s]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 February, 1802: 'I got tea when I reached home [after walk], and then set on to reading German.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknown[German text/s]Print: Book
1900-1945'During the whole of my stay I continually asked to be allowed to have English books, but apart from one small, rather sloppy novel I was only permitted a German-English ...Lorimer John Austin unknown unknown[German-English Grammar]Print: Book
1900-1945'The routine of every day was precisely the same. We were wakened at five, and the coffee for breakfast was provided at half-past ... After dressing, and performing the m...Lorimer John Austin unknown unknown[German-English Grammar]Print: Book
1850-1899'we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][German/English dictionary]Print: Book
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker [ghost stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening Polly was so deeply interested in a ghost story written by Lord Lytton & said to be the foundation of a "Strange Story" by that nobleman that she left eve...Polly Castieau Edward Bulwer Lytton[ghost story]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.'John Ruskin Charles Dickens[ghost story]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. Fr...John Ruskin G. Baker[Gladstone]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and reading some good books.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][Good books]Print: Book
1800-1849'I like - I admire the Italian translation of the Gospels & Psalms, which are what I have hitherto read. If the Prophetical books are not so well rendered, I will abide b...Sarah Harriet Burney [Gospels and Psalms]Print: Book


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