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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'when they were gone, I reed and wrett in my sarmon booke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I talked with som strangers that Came to Mr Hoby, wrought, reed a sarmon'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, when the sarmon was don, I Came in and hard Mr Ardington Read a sarmon'Mr Ardington [unknown][sermon]Unknown
1600-1699'and then I hard Mr Ardington read a sarmon and talked with hime tell allmost night'Mr Ardington [unknown][sermon]Unknown
1600-1699'and, after Diner, I went about the house, wrett 2. letters, hard Mr Rhodes read a sarmon, then walked with Mr Ardington'Richard Rhodes [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praiers I went to diner: after, I went to a standinge to se the quene Come to London, were I Reed a serome'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I reed a sarmon, and so, hauinge praied, went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dimer I talked a whill, and then wrought and hard Mr Maude read of a sermon'Mr Maude [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1500-1599'after, I hard Mr Maud read of a sarmon book, then I praied, after dinned: then then I wrought and hard Mr Maud read againe'Mr Maude [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part o...John Taylor John Taylor[sermon]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschlyus[several plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read "The Old Houses of Flanders" & "Clair de Lune", first half, & "Thank Goodness the Moving is Over" last night after my speech... & I was signing copies of my books...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford[several poems]Unknown
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plat...Percy Bysshe Shelley Plato[several works]Print: Book
1900-1945'"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe...Herbert Hodge Harry Blyth[Sexton Blake stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams [Sexton Blake Stories]Print: Serial / periodical, comics
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek n/a[sexual grafitti]Manuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ...Percy Wall Arthur Conan Doyle[Sherlock Holmes Stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only ma...Antonia White Arthur Conan Doyle[Sherlock Holmes Stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
[...]
8. After coffee we were faced with the Herculean task of answering a G...		Members of the XII Book Club[Members of the XII Book Club] [Short answers to a general knowledge quiz paper]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other unavoidable circumstances) of 3 members to introduc...Ernest E. Unwin Francis Bret Harte[short poems]Print: Book


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