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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'I spent most of yesterday in the Advocates' Library and got about half way through the catalogue.'Robert Louis Stevenson ?Robert ?Wodrow[MSS in the Advocates' Library]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter James Bruce[narratives of travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Fran?ois Le Vaillant[narratives of travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Isaac Weld[narratives of travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter James Cook[narratives of voyages]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Jean Fran?ois de Galaup La P?rouse[narratives of voyages]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Louis Antoine de Bougainville[narratives of voyages]Print: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson Gilbert White[natural history]Print: Book
1850-1899'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and rambles that took up so much of my time, but I would try to overcome my disinclination to serious reading. There we...William Henry Hudson [unknown] [unknown][Natural History]Print: Book
1900-1945'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events o...Ernest E. Unwin William Henry Hudson[naturalist writing]Print: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson Thomas Hardy[nature and the countryside]Print: Book
1800-1849'The parable of the talents was one of the first passages in the New Testament that attracted my serious attention'.Elizabeth Hamilton [New testament]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have seen a hint in one of the Papers about some letters of [General Sir] David Baird to the same tune as [Sir John] Moore's [about the Peninsular Campaign].'William Wordsworth unknown[newpapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'"I've been calm all week, but yesterday I listened to the news bulletin and I got a bad dose of jitters. I read somewhere that they're going to move London to Canada, a... [unknown][news bulletin]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 28 February 1848:

'From the papers of Saturday I had learnt the abdication of Louis Phili...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[news of abdication of French king Louis Philippe]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The steps around Eros statue are filled with an excited crowd, coster's barrows stand around selling fruit, chocolate, etc. Hot chestnuts, roasted potatoes and peanuts a...people gathered near the Eros statue [n/a][news running on electric signboard]Print: electric signboard with scrolling text
1850-1899'You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing is Panorama painting; but still these three particul...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][newspaper acconts of events in America in run up ...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Bentley's puffs in the newspaper (for Jane Scott's "Trevelyan") quite sicken me, all admirable and charming alike, written by his [italics] literary adviser [end italics...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper advertisements for "Trevelyan"]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The newspapers having transferred their puffs from "Trevelyan" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and almost regret my sincerity in taking notice of them...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper advertisements for Jane Scott's Trevely...Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French newspapers, which I now began to peruse, not without...Charles Manby Smith [n/a][newspaper advertisements]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper


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