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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
 
1800-1849September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly kept by my father was a bill, 'a first, second and ...Francis Place  Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster
1800-1849Sharon Turner (lawyer) to John Murray, 31 January 1822: 'Mr. Shadwell, whom I have just seen, has told me that he had read "Cain" some time ago, -- that he thinks it c...George Gordon Lord ByronCain, a MysteryPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		She 'alledged many Scriptures, which she had never read, but only tumbling and tossing over the Bible ... Shee had a custome in tumbling over of the Bible, to put her fin...Joan Drake BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and repeated part, and sung part of a Psalm her self. T...Richard Baxter BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699She read saints' lives and was 'as it were enflamed with a desire of imitating them'. Her needlework was always accompanied by the 'reading of some spiritual book' (presu...Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury unknown[spiritual books]Print: Book
1600-1699She would every yeare read over the whole Bible in an ordinary course, which course she constantly observed for the space of fifteene yeares together, beginning her t...Mary Gunter The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945Sheila read 'The Flight of the Heron' too, but was less impressed. I think she realised how I felt; she once teased me about it.Sheila Beer D.K. BrosterThe Flight of the HeronPrint: Book
1800-1849Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.Mary Godwin and Percy ShelleyEdward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise ...anon [unknown][the barren fig tree]Print: Book
1800-1849Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise ...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise ...Colin Arrott Browning [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Sir Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 'On the Nile,' 30 March 1835: 'The Quarterly is lying before me [...] I have been reperusing the very article which treats of Ma...Sir Alexander Burnes Sir John MacNeill'England, France, Russia, and Turkey'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Sir Arthur Helps to the publisher Macmillan, 'I have lately re-read "Deerbrook" with exceeding delight.'Sir Arthur Helps Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 19 April 1843: 'I was at a committee this morning, when I heard a gentleman say: "My friend, Mr. Bouverie, got hold of Lady Sale'...Mr Bouverie Lady SaleJournal [of experience of retreat from Afghanistan...Print: Book
1800-1849Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 2 July 1835: 'I have not had time to finish Fanny Kemble's book, but have seen enough of it to feel that she has been most unkindly...Sir Francis B. Head Fanny Kemble ButlerJournal [of residence in America]Print: Book
1800-1849Sir Francis Head to John Murray, 26 June 1842: 'My son will be quite proud at receiving the [italics]first[end italics] copy of the new Quarterly, the only one, I be...Sir Francis Head The Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Sir Francis Knight to John Murray (1839): 'I was glad [...] to hear the child's voice crying in the Times this morning. The extract [from his work] was the very best t...Francis Head Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administ...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 1 April 1839: 'I cannot help thanking you for having sent us such a shower of Quarterly Reviews. My Hens are quite delighted at the ...Sir Francis Head and (apparently) female family membersJohn Wilson Croker'Colonial Government -- Head's Narrative [of his A...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 5 March 1839: 'What is most extraordinary is the article in my favour which lately appeared in the Globe. That paper, after defendin...Francis Head Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administ...Print: Newspaper


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