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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
 
1850-1899'I went into town & read some of the papers at the Club, came home & soon went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'in the evening went to the Club & after reading the papers took a walk & then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Club & after reading the papers started to keep an appointment I had made with Polly & Mrs Mathews.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'McKinley & I walked into town & went to the Yorick together. After reading the papers Duerdin & I left for home & took a stroll through Bourke Street.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening reading & trying to amuse the children.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown - novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) C...Donald William Alers Hankey [unknown][unknown - on Higher criticism]Print: Unknown, cuttings
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi[unknown - on Spain]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Georges Bernard Depping[unknown - on Spain]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening went as usual to the Club & after skimming some of the English periodicals went for a little stroll with Duerdin'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'On the day that the bloody battle of Gravellote was fought [August 18, 1870] they [Hardy and Emma] were reading Tennyson in the grounds of the rectory.'Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma GiffordAlfred Tennyson[Unknown - Poetry]Unknown
1600-1699'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she was not within neither, and so we went through bridge ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown - recipes]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'To enumerate some of the books I read would be to write a small catalogue; but I covered a fairly wide range in drama, fiction...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[unknown -novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican view of history. During the First World War, when the h...Jim Flowers Thomas Paine[unknown -Rights of Man?]Print: Book
1900-1945I sat at my table and studied verbs and nouns, wrapped in more clothes than I wore to climb the Matterhorn, and looked with a wary eye at the sunshine outside, dazz...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown Arabic language primer]Print: Book
1900-1945'Hasan, smoking wisps of paper filled with green tobacco, walked on reciting poems composed by his father about Harold and the R.A.F. and chucked his long brown fin...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown Arabic poems in praise of the RAF and Har...Unknown
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end un...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox Ford[unknown article about Ezra Pound]Print: Serial / periodical


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