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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'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation of soul, joined to a high moral character. Goethe's...Charlotte Bury Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[possibly] Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relati...Print: Book
1800-1849'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation of soul, joined to a high moral character. Goethe's...Charlotte Bury John TweddellRemains of the late John Tweddell, fellow of Trini...Print: Book
1700-1799'At home all day... In reading Homer's "Odyssey", I think the character which Menelaus gives Telemachus of Ulysses, when he is a-speaking of his war-like virtues in the 4...Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'At home I acquired increased facilities for reading, by means of a small book-club, consisting of my landlord and a few of his friends. Of this I became a member; and ...Charles RollinThe Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagians,...Print: Book
1600-1699'At home I fell a-reading of Fullers "Church History" till it was late, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1850-1899'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them...Lucy Housman William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them...Lucy Housman Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them...Lucy Housman Thomas Moore[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them...Edward Housman Charles DickensPickwick Papers, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them...Housman family [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'At last I have been enabled to accomplish my desire in having the greater part of our family here, present at the Scripture reading in the morning, it has been to me a v...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'AT LAST! A letter from Brenda [Tom's sister] dated July 27th, 1942, with some news of Nora: 'I expect Joan has told you of the letter she had from Mrs Noble giving an ac...Thomas Kitching [letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'At last, son of night, I receive a communication […] Oh no, it is not the penny. It is the one-volume story demanded by Hueffer for the New Tarterly [sic]. It’s a...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley  Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'At Leicester we read in the newspapers that Dr James was dead'. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'At luncheon [read] Scott's "Architecture of Humanism", a valuable and permanent contribution to honest thought on the subject, and a book I rejoice to have. But Lord, h...Ronald Storrs Geoffrey ScottThe Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the Histo...Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][Greek Philosophy]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] John Locke[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] David Hume[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] George Berkeley[unknown]Print: Book


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