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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
 
1700-1799'quite vexed to teach my children in so shabby a room as the laundry; [underline] Pride [end underline] I think it was; however, I had a very comfortable reading with the...Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I had a comfortable time with my children only I felt too anxious for uncle Joseph to see them as he was here but he did not; I am fearful I should be vain of my reading...Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1600-1699'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown- little but shrewd piece]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read the Papers at [the Mechanics?]'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown- newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. The Reading Room was very hot & I could not bring my m...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown- periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There was also a pretty good library on board [HMS Spartiate], and I suppose the chaplain, who had charge of it, had noticed that I chose books not usually read by stoke...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown- various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p...Ethel Mannin Sigmund Freud[unknown-works]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I Cam home I was pained in the toothach which Continewed with me 4 days after, in which time I exercised prainge and readinge as I was able'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel Sennert[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did read, eate, and so went to Church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetitie for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chr...Joseph Barker George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Had dinner & read until Muster time. After Muster read again till tea-time.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1500-1599'and so read tel supper Came'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I Came home and reed to Mrs Ormstone'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after, hard him read, then praied, and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after supper, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then went to priuat praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I did read a while to my workwemen, and then to the Lector'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Theocritus[unknown]Print: Book


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