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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 there to save my eyes, got my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W. Batelier came and spent the evening talking to us'Elizabeth Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and there, by and by being called in, Mr Williamson did read over our paper, which was in a letter to the Duke of York, bound up in a book with the Duke of York's book o...Samuel Pepys[defence of the existing constitution of the Navy ...Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and towardes night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and towardes night went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen John BiglandSystem of Geography and HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen John Barrow (ed.)Lord Macartney's Journal of the Embassy to ChinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen Sir George Steuart MackenzieTravels in IcelandPrint: Book
1600-1699'and when came home there, I got my wife to read'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and when I Came home I went to priuat readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'And when you produced your really adorable notice of "What the Public Wants", I more than ever wanted to fall on your neck.' Arnold Bennett Westminster GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'And while we are on the subject of the war, I am sure you have noticed the excellent blank verse poem in this week's "Punch" entitled "Killed in Action". I read it wit...Clive Staples Lewis Rudolph Chambers LehmannKilled in ActionPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward me for all my care in keeping them, that I am not li...Samuel Pepys Samuel PepysMemorandums and Conclusions of the Navy BoardManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'And with that, dismissing the subject, I dived again into the unplumbed depths of the "Penny Cyclopaedia"'.Edmund Gosse Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Penny CyclopaediaPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'And woke at 7 [she had been sleeping on deck] — no nonsense about swabbing down the decks here! Very hot and steaming and the smell downstairs appalling. Read the ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)A Voyage of ConsolationPrint: Book
1850-1899'And yet I am going to send you a book that was written altogether in the spirit of that place. I send it however, because it is just one of those specimens of consummate...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaudelairePetits poemes en prosePrint: Book
1900-1945'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enough for me to see. She had not had enough experience....Ford Madox Ford Esther Julia Ford[a short story]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enough for me to see. She had not had enough experience....Esther Julia Ford Esther Julia Ford[a short story]Manuscript: Unknown


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