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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'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'Mary Shelley Thomas PaineLetter addressed to the Abbi Raynal on the Affairs...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'Mary Shelley Thomas PaineAge of Reason, The: being an investigation of true...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Age of Reason'Mary Shelley Thomas PaineAge of Reason, The: being an investigation of true...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Age of Reason'Mary Shelley Thomas PaineAge of Reason, The: being an investigation of true...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Rights of Man'Mary Shelley Thomas PaineRights of Man, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Thomas Paine The Age of ReasonPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were rea...Hilary Spalding Thomas Palgrave (ed)Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 26 April, 1797: 'Some Mr T Park sent me a volume of his poems last week, with a note; its praises too gross for one who is no fowl-feede...Robert Southey Thomas ParkSonnets, and Other Small Poems Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you...Robert Southey Thomas ParnellA Fairy Tale, in the Ancient English Style Print: Unknown
'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, concerning which I had in vain questioned him in sev...Samuel Johnson Thomas ParnellHermit, ThePrint: Book
'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, concerning which I had in vain questioned him in sev...James Boswell Thomas ParnellHermit, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immediately guessed one of them to be mine, and pitched u...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas Parnell Print: Book
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its As...anon Thomas PearsonInfidelity; its Aspects, Causes and AgenciesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Pennants view of Hindostan'.Mary Godwin Thomas PennantOutlines of the Globe (Vol I. The View of Hindosta...Print: Book
1700-1799'I brought from the Library "Pennant's [Views?] of London", out of which I drew a view of the Savoy Hospital'Joseph Hunter Thomas PennantAccount of LondonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I drew out of Pennant a View of the Ruins of Clerkenwell Church'Joseph Hunter Thomas PennantAccount of LondonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Took Pennant's "View of Hindoostan" to Library; I have not read it but, Mr E. says it is very entertaining. There are some beautiful plates in it.'Joseph Evans Thomas PennantOutlines of the Globe: the View of HindoostanPrint: Book
1700-1799'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sky. Dr. Percy, knowing himself to be the heir male of...Thomas Percy Thomas PennantTour in Scotland in 1769, APrint: Book
1700-1799'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sky. Dr. Percy, knowing himself to be the heir male of...Samuel Johnson Thomas PennantTour in Scotland in 1769, APrint: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "He's [Pennant] a [italics] Whig [end italics], Sir; a [italics]sad dog [end italics]. (smiling at his own violent expressions, merely for [italics] political [...Samuel Johnson Thomas PennantTour in Scotland in 1769Print: Book


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