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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
 
1800-1849'In this weeks paper Dr M. advertises that he proposes to deliver 12 lectures on metal and metalurgy ...the subscription for which is one guinea.'Joseph Hunter [n/a][The Sheffield Iris]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, L[eighton]. P[ark].: 18. i. 33.
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved...		Victor Alexander Victor Alexander[The situation in France during the period 1580-15...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Alfred Rawlings [the story of Hervé Riel]
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ...Hugh Miller [the story of Joseph]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's face, a Pulteney's dower/ I ask not wit nor even sens...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[The Ton]Print: Unknown
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where ?Winter lingering chills the lap of May? if I could help it.' Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver Goldsmith[The traveller]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lines written by Montgomery on Home' 'There is a spot of earth...'Carey/Maingay groupJames Montgomery[The West Indies] OR 'Home'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin [the works listed above]Print: Book
1700-1799'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewes; these were chiefly theological. The only one, tha...James Hogg [theological books]Print: Book
1850-1899?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great...Thomas Burt [unknown][theological magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and hi...Daniel Bamford [unknown][theological works]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal ...John Ellingham Brooks John Henry, Cardinal Newman[theological works]Print: Book
1700-1799'What philosophy suggests to us on this topick [the possibility of life after death] is probable: what Scripture tells us is certain. Dr. Henry More has carried it as far...Samuel Johnson Henry More[theological works]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'...Joseph Keating [thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Well, I took it because it's a thriller. That's the reason. I like thrillers, you see. I always read thrillers.' [unknown][thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I like reading. I can sit down and read a good thriller and start on it again immediately I have finished it, but nothing else ... As I've tried to explain I can't find ... [unknown][thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I was up early and round to the machine-gunners about their piano for to-night's concert ... After making all the arrangements for a practice this afternoon, carrying th...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [Times Book Club Catalogue]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I was up early and round to the machine-gunners about their piano for to-night's concert ... After making all the arrangements for a practice this afternoon, carrying th...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [Times Book Club Catalogue]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I wish you had been present when I opened the parcel and read the title page, the exclamations, the elevated voices, the "O Mama pray let me look" and "O Mama may [itali...Anne Romilly Maria Edgeworth[title page of a children's book]Print: Book
1900-1945'Subsequently I recieved a curiously worded scroll addressed to "Our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell." This document would hardly find favour with the advoc...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][To our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitch...Manuscript: Sheet


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