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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'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Wallace's life from the autobiography reading a number of...Henry Marriage Wallis Alfred Russel Wallace[scientific writings]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] In reading the annals of her own country, she had been touched with the hard fate of Lady Arabella Stuart; and, either to extend her knowledge, or amuse...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][Scottish history]Print: Book
1900-1945'... we got no news at Göttingen except from scraps of English papers which came in parcels, the Göttingen paper was one of the worst in Germany, and we did not take it ...J. P. Lynch unknown unknown[scraps of English newspapers]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, Postcards
1900-1945'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a devout Evangelical herself, she reared him in her faith...Wilfred Owen [Scripture Union notes on the Bible]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'After the service we inspected the monument of Thomas Robinson... The Saviour appearing in the clouds with an open book in his hands on which is written these words [sic...John Cole [Scripture]Print: Monument of Thomas Robinson, St Mary's Church, Leicester (Sculptor, Bacon)
1600-1699'So to the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and examining part of my Sea=manuscript with great pleasure - my wife sitting working by me.'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Sea Manuscript]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'and so to the office again and made an end of examining the other of Mr Hollands books about the Navy, with which I am much contented'Samuel Pepys John Holland[second discourse on Naval administration]Print: Book
1800-1849'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'Mary Shelley Cicero[Second Oration]Print: Book
1850-1899'Herewith you receive the rest of Henley’s hospital work. He was much pleased by what you said of him, and asked me to forward these to you for your opinion; the pencil m...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley[second series of] Hospital Poems Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Let me say that I have read several of your letters published in the Courant, and found them competently done.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Gray Robertson[See below, Additional Comments.]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Isaac Barrow[Select Sermons]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I went at once to the bookseller's which sold "The Penn...Edwin Muir Matthew Arnold[selection of poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Greek poetry, (I have just been reading some translati...Vita Sackville-West unknown[selections from a Greek Anthology]Print: Book
1850-1899'...the inside of the lid of it was lined with sheets of what I now know to have been a sensational novel. It was of course a fragment, but I read it, kneeling on the bar...Edmund Gosse [unknown][sensational novel]Print: Book
1800-1849To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the resolutions over carefully, then most reverently uncover...A Young Ploughman [series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up bManuscript: Sheet
1500-1599'M. Rhodes read a sarmon of the Reuel: and so went to bed'Margaret Rhodes [unknown][sermon - Revelation]Print: Book
1700-1799Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it.Frances Hamilton John Mead[Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitan...Print: Book, Pamphlet
1850-1899'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that striking and curious sermon of Mr Maurice's, entitled ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick Denison Maurice[Sermon on 'Religion versus God'] Print: Unknown
'He [Johnson] said, "I read yesterday Dr. Blair's sermon on Devotion, from the text 'Cornelius, a devout man.' His doctrine is the best limited, the best expressed: there...Samuel Johnson Hugh Blair[Sermon on Devotion]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus]Print: Book


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