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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
 
1600-1699'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she was not within neither, and so we went through bridge ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown - recipes]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there reading in Sir W Pettys book, and so home - and to bed'Samuel Pepys [anon]A treatise of taxes and contributionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so with great content and joy home - where I made my boy to make an end of the "Reall Character", which I begun a great while ago and doth please me infinitely, and ...John WilkinsAn essay towards a real character, and a philosoph...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's "Hydrostatickes", which the more I read and understand, the mo...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so with W. Hewer to the Cock, and there he and I dined alone with great content, he reading to me, for my memory sake, my late collections of the history of the Navy...William Hewer Samuel Pepys[work on naval history]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so, after priuat praers, I Reed a whill and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so, after, I went to priuat praier and reading'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'And that reminds me that your last Strand story was really admirable. A little faint towards the end I thought, but fundamentally damn good. 'Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe Country of the BlindPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold; and I think I see how you may develop differently....Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestCollected PoemsUnknown
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein ...Matthew Wren [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein ...James, Duke of York [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...'Joseph Stamper [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'And the merit of the book ["Jocelyn"], (apart from distinguished literary expression) is just in this: You have given the exact measure of your characters in a language ...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyJocelynManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'And the monthly parts of "The Scots Worthies" which my father had carried with him from Sanday, and which were now in hopeless confusion, I went over carefully, arrangin...Edwin Muir John HowieThe Scots WorthiesPrint: Serial / periodical, bound by father into a volume
1600-1699'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's writing, he beginning this week; and makes methink bu...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [L'Estrange]The IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playfords "Introduction to Musique", wherein are some things very pretty.'Samuel Pepys John PlayfordA brief introduction to the skill of musickPrint: Book


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