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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'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides'William Windham Thucydides[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'about this time I began to practis accounts, I bought a Book, & Slate, and got somebody to set me a gate at the beginning of a Rule, & then wrought by my book &c, and in...Benjamin Shaw [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening played Bezique with Polly & read Shakespeare with Harry.'John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays'John Clare William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'It was the explanation, the perfectly prosaic and positive explanation, of all these wonders which drew them to study the Habershons and the Newtons whose books they so ...Philip and Emily GosseMatthew Habershon[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the old solitary years, a long time ago, by the shores of Canadian rapids, on the edge of West Indian swamps, his Virgil had been an inestimable solace to him...The b...Philip Gosse Virgil[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What an Aladdin's cave i...Sir John Hammerton Joseph Addison[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What an Aladdin's cave i...Sir John Hammerton Oliver Goldsmith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What an Aladdin's cave i...Sir John Hammerton Francis Bacon[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What anAladdin's cave it...Sir John Hammerton Richard Steele[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What anAladdin's cave it...Sir John Hammerton Thomas De Quincey[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What an Aladdin's cave i...Sir John Hammerton Charles Lamb[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'When I came home I found Charley Gee engaged with our youngsters singing comic songs & making himself otherwise entertaining, the children enjoyed his company very much ...John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three games of cribbage with Polly'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown


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