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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'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condes...Anne Isabella Milbanke Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Peter Pindar[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Annie Swan [from Leith] ... vividly recalled the occasion when her mother "surprised us all by retiring to her room for a whole day, abandoning everything. The mystery ...Mrs Swan Mrs Henry WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1850-1899'Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, by chance, not knowing it was the day on which they ...John Ruskin John Charles Ryle[unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'Anon to Sir W. Penn to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep.'Tom [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blots and errors. This man, when repeating his lessons,...anon [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Another big push in to-day's paper on a 30-mile front from Morlancourt, south of Arras, right down to Lihons.'Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and instructive work I still possess and read occasionall...James Glass Bertram James Lackington[autobiography]Print: Book
1800-1849'Another book of a very different character has amused me mightily; it is entitled "Tablettes Romaines", and is full of wit and vivacity, and gives a very just and true p...Sarah Harriet Burney J.H., Count de Santo DomingoTablettes romaines; contenant des faits, des anecd...Print: Book
1700-1799'Another book which thus came in my way was Mrs Barbauld's "Hymns for Children" which I soon perceived to be exactly suited both to my taste and my capacity. Here I met w...Thomas Carter Anna Letitia BarbauldHymns in Prose for ChildrenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Another book: Missing Believed Prisoner, is by a South African captured at Sidi Rezegh. Those awful marches through the desert with no food or water. The Camp with sta...Vere Hodgson N. I. RobinsonMissing, Believed Prisoner: The Story of a South A...Print: Book
1700-1799'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Daughter get by heart - Johnson translated into Blank ...Hester Maria Thrale Metastasio [pseud.]AdrianoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Daughter get by heart - Johnson translated into Blank ...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[translation of lines from Metastasio's 'Adriano']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Another little society of five or six ladies that Mrs Rich belongs to meet once a week to read the Bible and pray together.' The Bible
1900-1945'Another lovely book called "The Story of San Michele".'Hilary Spalding Axel MuntheStory of San Michele, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Another lovely day: almost too hot to do anything. I've been depressed all day after reading Churchill's speech. It's a grim thought that in the event of an invasion the...Winston Churchill[speech]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Another of Von Buch's Miraculous Tales. On the coast of Norway are many rocks [...] This is the nineteenth hot day without any rain voila Mr Buch once more. At Skey eagl...Benjamin Newton [Von Buch][A Tour in Denmark]Print: Book
1850-1899'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great privilege and I waited eagerly for her description ...Zoe Procter George Meredith[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great privilege and I waited eagerly for her description ...Zoe Procter George Meredith[poetry]Print: Book


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