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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'I stayed at home & read'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell William Morris[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell John Keats[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after that, I hard him read tell all most night'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I dimed, and talked with some strangers that Came to visitt me, and after, being not well, I slept a while and then reed a while'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell all most supper time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I went about the house, then I hard Mr Rhodes read, took a lecture, praied, wrought, and went to dinner'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I praied and dined, and then I talked with my Mother and reed to hir'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, praied, and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I brake my fast: after, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought tell allmost dinner time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie and had praied, I went about the house, wrought a whill, reed, and praied'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I in...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed a whill and then did eate my breakfast'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I reed in perkins tell I went againe to the Church'Margaret Hoby William Perkins[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'read tell diner time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and then I hard Margaret Rhodes reed of Mr Grenhm'Margaret Rhodes Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Vir...Elizabeth Bowen Marcel Proust[unknown]Print: Book


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