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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'heard Harry & Sissy read'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'heard Harry & Sissy read'Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the empl...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time'John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the empl...John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson [Samuel?] Johnson[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson Laurence Sterne[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'] 'This accomplished, my next duties were to s...James Glass Bertram [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot [pseud] Theocritus[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the Malmantile'George Eliot [pseud] Malmantile[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I passed the afternone with Litle readinge because of my secknes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Juvenal[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read Prescott again and made notes'George Eliot [pseud] [probably] William Prescott[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Geoffrey Chaucer[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fa...George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge parcel of books. His father had bought him a complete...Lawrence Durrell William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Book


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