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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
 
1800-1849Wednesday, 4 June 1828: 'Started [for Edinburgh] at half past four and arrived at home if we must call it so at nine o'clock in the evening. I employd my leisure in th...Walter Scott Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Es...Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 5 April 1826: 'Read Clapperton's journey and Denman's [sic] into Bornou -- very entertaining and less botheration about mineralogy botany and so forth tha...Walter Scott Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and Doctor OudneyNarrative of Travels in Northern and Central Afric...Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 8 March 1826: 'Being jaded and sleepy I took up Le Duc de Guise en Naples. I think this, with the old Memoires on the same subject [...] would enable me t...Walter Scott M. De PastoretLe Duc de Guise a Naples etc. en 1647 et 1648Print: Book
1700-1799Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed most heartily at the Reading of it. I believ it is t...Anne Cust Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Went again to the shrubbery-brought our books namely Gil Blas and Madame de Sevigne with us.Lady Eleanor Butler A.R. LesageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave me.Anne Lister '2 or 3 old papers'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett Ann RadcliffeMysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett Victor Hugo Print: Book
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett Lamartine Print: Book
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett LamartineChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Homer Print: Book, Pamphlet
1700-1799Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Conscious Lovers'.Gertrude Savile (Sir) Richard SteeleThe Conscious Lovers. A Comedy.Print: Book
1700-1799West Indian Islands Islands len Brd chief towns Belonging to _______________________________________________________...Mary Bacon unknown[Almanac]Print: Unknown, set out in a table
1900-1945What a bloody world we are living in! To read the papers makes one quite sick and here one cannot help feeling that the horror over poor little Dollfuss is largely ...Freya Stark unknown unknownunknown Italian newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words would often have been mine, if heaven had endowed me ...Anne Lister Edward YoungThe Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, andPrint: Book
1700-1799When 8 or 9, 'my Father seeing I took Pleasure in learning my Book, he bestowed a Tutor on me ...' Reads Talmud etc. -- 'in all those Books, I made such Progress, that I ...Moses Marcus Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1500-1599When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes...John Carter [n/a]Old TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes...John Carter [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
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1800-1849		When I begin to enumerate the works I have read since I came to Dove's-Nest, I feel surprised that I should have read so few, and that the greater part of those few shoul...Ellen Weeton [novels]Print: Book


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