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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
 
1850-1899Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'In another cell we saw a respectable looking man in middle life, seated at his table with his head leaning on his hand, and copious ...anon [unknown][manuscripts]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'We first went to Gallery B, occupied by penal servitude men. In one cell we saw a pleasant looking, dark-complexioned man of about 3...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe (1923): 'I began to ...Newman Flower Hall CaineThe Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction)Print: Book
1700-1799News. Writt. After supper read 'The Perplex'd Dutches'.Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler HaywoodThe Perplex'd Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded...APrint: Book
1800-1849Newspaper from WM this morning... Also two Examiners the last week and this, so that I revel in news this day. The Old ministers seem very sore at losing or giving up the...Robert Sharp The Times OR The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799No rest for me in bed, therefore rise 1/2 past 4... summerhouse till 1/2 past 7 read Baker's ChroniclesGertrude Savile Richard BakerA Chronicle of the Kings of England from the TimePrint: Book
1700-1799None went to Church. Aunt gave us coffee. Mother read scriptures.Barbara Savile BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799None went to Church. Read a book of Luther's.Gertrude Savile Martin Luther Print: Book
1700-1799None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1900-1945Not long ago I happened to call at the railway carter, and found the wife of the man engaged in reading George Eliots' 'Adam Bede'George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899Noted by 17-year-old Alice Thompson in her diary: 'I have been reading Fatima and I don't quite think I know what love is.'Alice Thompson unknownFatimaUnknown
1900-1945Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the keener / Mood shall be the more / As our might lessens...Edward Morgan Forster Arnold ToynbeeA Study of History (vol I)Print: Book
1850-1899Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."Henry James Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."Henry James Prosper MerimeeunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Notes in pencil in the rear inside cover, and some light marginalia in pencil throughout the volume; this is extensive on the following pages: 90, 108-111, 116-7, 134-5, ...Vernon Lee Edwin S. GoodrichLiving Organisms: An Account of their Origin & Evo...Print: Book
1900-1945Notes on flyleaf and marginalia in English in pencil throughoutVernon Lee Henry Noel BrailsfordThe war of steel and gold: a study of the armed pe...Print: Book
1700-1799Nothing Remarkable happend the Morning Noon nor evening of that Day, only Read the play called the Scool for Wifes.John Yeoman Hugh KellyThe School for WivesUnknown
1850-1899November 18, 1881 [Paris] 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thackeray's on Mme. de Sevigne. Apropos of books, I ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Anne Isabella Thackeray RitchieMadame de SevignePrint: Book
1850-1899November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettHumphry ClinkerPrint: Book
1850-1899November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Laurence SterneSentimental Journey, APrint: Book


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