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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'Read in the morning and work'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Work and read in the evening'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Write and read'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Anatole France (pseud.)[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal ...John Ellingham Brooks George Meredith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal ...John Ellingham Brooks Algernon Charles Swinburne[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mary read to me some passages from Ld Byron's poems. I was not before so clearly aware [of] how much of the colouring our own feelings throw upon the liveliest delineati...Mary Godwin George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons, Sherlock on Death, Watts' world to come, Rollin's "...John Cole Hugh Blair[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I...Elizabeth Smith Kliest[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		'When Mrs Hinde (the Old Lady) would sometimes talk to her about Books, she?d cry out, "Prithee don?t talk to me about books?as I never read any Books, but men & Cards"?B...Sarah Churchill [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'The men in these boats were dressed much as they are represented in Tasman's figure, that is, two corners of the cloth they wore were passed over their shoulders and fas...Joseph Banks Abel Jansen Tasman[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read for some time with Harry, he manages Shakespeare tolerably well for a boy of his age'John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Sunday, Feb 4 (1940) 'Rose late. 11 o'clock. Breakfast. Went out to shovel snow off paths. Stayed in all day, reading, writing, etc. Thank goodness snow seems to be thaw... [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'1.45. Paddington. All seats crowded, people eating, sleeping, reading, on seats and porters' trucks. Looking at Arrival Indicator, woman says "Trains not a bit late yet,... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945Letter 255 April 7th 1940 'I?ve got this sudden craze for the Michael Angelo Sonnetts & have set about half a dozen of them (in Italian ? pretty brave, but there are pe...Benjamin Britten Michelangelo Buonarrotti[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consult the "Daily Telegraph Supplement"; host offers Obse... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'On Coronation Day we had a holiday so I thought I would have a rest and so I stayed in bed all the morning reading.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh farewell; I shall see him nae mair/ Lang lang was he ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Our own attitude and our feeling of amateur enterprise have been summed up by Professor Bronislaw Malinowski, who in our first year's "Report" (Lindsay Drummond, 1938) ...Bronislaw Malinowski?[unknown]Manuscript: Sheet, Academic paper
1500-1599'then I wrought and reed tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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