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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
 
1900-1945'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was more idle and hateful than ever..."The Tempest" seems t...Katherine Mansfield [newspapers]Print: Book
1900-1945'12th March 1929 Wrote to mother; read my week?s papers and extracted cuttings.' Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.' Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'24th March 1929 (Sunday). Delicious morning. We breakfasted in the garden, and after, while the Th?ologues retire upstairs to study the Epistle to the Romans. Melle...Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Irish affairs, which pleases me much; for they say it is...John Mitchel [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, and MacManus, in the "Swift", and Martin and O'Dohert...John Mitchel [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large capitals. Here are my last extracts from the South Afr...John Mitchel [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east coast, called Maria Island, a rugged and desolate te...John Mitchel [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Talk and read the papers'Mary Godwin [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 10 1775 'I had indeed heard that the 15th were under orders for America, but did not dream of Captain Ourry?s accompanying them; and I examined...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read the papers at the Mechanics.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After I had been in bed two or three hours I woke finding the room shaking very much. I at first fancied some one was walking across the adjacent apartment & then that s...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institution.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After Tea I took a stroll called in at the Mechanics Institution & read the Papers, went down to the Royal, met Day & had a chat with him.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After four o clock took a stroll, read the papers at the Mechanics & then called at Joe's Office.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Deputy Sheriff's about ten o clock & had a look at the newspapers [he] received by the mornings mail.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read the newspapers at Mr Brett's House.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received three newspapers & Punch all from Neild. The newspapers contained an account of a Performance by the Garrick Club. It appears to have been as successful as an...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliq...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The papers are sent to me very regularly by the kind Shuldhams, and I read them with indescribable eagerness; but they take away my spirits for the rest of the day. The ...Sarah Harriet Burney [newspapers]Print: Newspaper


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