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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
 
1900-1945'In the fog the safest guide is a blind man. This is a [italics] sortes [end italics] from Julien Green to whose journal I turn for some light' [she hopes Green's methods...Antonia White Julien Green[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'.Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic word.'Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed and wrought and was Vesited by my brother, and, after I had praied and suped, I reed and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[having quoted from sermons and poetical works, including Swift, Young and her husband, on the subject of adultery Pilkington says] 'I must beg my Reader's Pardon for the...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I own myself very indiscreet in permitting any Man to be at an unseasonable Hour in my Bed-Chamber; but Lovers of Learning will, I am sure, pardon me, as I solemnly decl...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'My Landlady, who was really a Gentlewoman, and he [a Gentleman LP knew from Ireland], and I diverted away the Time with Ombre, Reading, and Pratling, very tolerably'Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I told the Doctor, my Writings might amuse, but his made the World the wiser and the better, as I had had the Pleasure of reading them.'Laetitia Pilkington Stephen Hales[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[Having agreed to let her landlady lodge a Dr Turnbull in her (LP's) bedchamber] 'I went up to my own Apartment, where I found the Doctor reading'George Turnbull [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I was going to proceed, when Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] interrupted me; I was, said he, at the Duke of [italics] Richmond[end italics]'s last Summer, when his Dau...Emilia, Lady Lennox [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I grew so melancholy at the Loss of my Companion, that I did not even care for writing, but amused myself entirely with reading; and my not having a Library of my own, m...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives a Man the Air of a Politician, for the same Reason ...George Rooke [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Was reading a good deal in the evening, then came into the Gaol & wrote up my Diary'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'When we came home we did some reading & then Polly & I played three games of bagatelle of which I lost two'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I stayed at home in the evening & amused myself by reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'after, I went to worke, and read, and so, when I had praied and supped, I went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak plainly & so makes a great hash of some of the hard w...Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak plainly & so makes a great hash of some of the hard w...Dotty Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I reed a whill and praied, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I kept in my Chamber workinge tell allmost night and hard my Cosine Isons Read' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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