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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
1850-1899		[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace destroy/ Or strive to ease thy woes/ Will thou to man i...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[Translation of an Arabic Ode]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's face, a Pulteney's dower/ I ask not wit nor even sens...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[The Ton]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
1800-1849[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/The knell of Time in sorrowing tone / Or sadly tune m...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonOde to the closing yearPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction'; [Text] 'Reviewing June's perennial flight/ We m...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonLines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much an...Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation and/ different avenues to our gratitude and favour - ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[On Friendship]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear the busy hours away/That is not home where lonely ni...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonLines on HomePrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec moi meme;/ Ah prends garde un peril extreme/ De caus...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou bright emanation of the/ Divinity, thou brilliant s...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonThe Dead and the Living [extract]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ Of endless woe complains/ Be mine in patient hope alo...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonResignationPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our experience = it is/ sorrow which teaches us to feel pro...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonJournal of an AnnuyeePrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light and warmth once liv'd below/ Where have ye ta'en your ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Looks at cartoon first. "Oh, quite right, you know. It is these people who - I love those two. Yes". Turns to Priestley quotation, "He's come out lately, this Priestley,... anonInternees LeafletPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Reads the front page, turns to the back, looks at the cartoon intently as if trying to understand it; then opens it and says, "What's all this?" "Have I got to read it a... anonInternees LeafletPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Reads part. "This is very interesting". Reads carefully. "Of course it was ridiculous jamming all foreigners into concentration camps. I call that a good leaflet -very i... anonInternees LeafletPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'I took "Varieties & c" to the Library. I brought the 2nd Volume of the "Minstrel or Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons in ye 15 Century". ... I think it one of the Pret...Joseph Hunter AnonThe Minstrel; or Anecdotes of Distinguished Person...Print: Book
1800-1849'I rose at 5 O'clock, and going to a small plantation that overlooked the Jed I learned all I ever knew of English Grammar. At that time grammar was not taught in such of...Robert White anon[English Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849 Inscribed in the book on the front free endpaper: This book belonged to my father William youngest son of John and Catherine Williams of Scorrier House in the year of o...William Williams anonPoetical description of song birdsPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter to her daughter-in-law Ann, dated 4th June 1818: "Little Madge (Margaret Elizabeth Haskoll) told me that she had a little brother now and she prayed for him. I ...Lydia Haskoll anonHistory of Little Goody Two-shoesPrint: Book
1800-1849The book seems to have been used in an educational context, probably at home. Pencilled crosses, dates and slash marks in the margins and within the text at regular inter...Olive Heath anonPreliminary lessons on the history of EnglandPrint: Book


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