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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'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clear...Isaac Archer William PerkinsArmilla Aurea, or The Golden ChainPrint: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr perkins new booke'Richard Rhodes William PerkinsA warning against the idolatrie of the last timesPrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I hard Mr Rhodes read of perkin'Richard Rhodes William PerkinsA warning against the idolatrie of the last timesPrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat prairs I reed of Mr perkins, and after went to the church'Margaret Hoby William Perkins[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Monday 19th July ?Story teller in London? ? (Pett Ridge) This book is of the type that I enjoy when easy reading is the mood. To make almost personal acquaintance w...Gerald Moore William Pett RidgeStory Teller in LondonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight.William Pinnock'Catechisms of History and Geography"Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely perfectly the chief events in the reigns of the English...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William PinnockCatechismPrint: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Go...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William Pinnock[?] Catechism of the History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Go...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William PinnockCatechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction...Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, "but I asked him on the wro...Michael Stapleton William PrescottHIstory of the Conquest of PeruPrint: 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 William PrescottConquest of Peru, ThePrint: 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 William PrescottConquest of Mexico, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835: 'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am now trying to understand Prout upon chemistry.' Elizabeth Barrett William ProutChemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digest...Print: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Pulleyn's Etymological Compendium for Maps &c.'John Cole William PulleynEtymological Compendium for MapsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Richardson's "Philosophical Analysis" of some of Shakespear's Characters. The design is happy, and, upon the whole, ingeniously executed...'Thomas Green William RichardsonA philosophical analysis and illustration of some ...Print: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton William RobertsonThe History of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I had always read the other side except in Hume, & wa...Lady Caroline Lamb William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill William RobertsonHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was w...Elizabeth Sewell William RobertsonHistory of Charles the FifthPrint: Book


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