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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'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Ancient GeographyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H...Frances Burney ancient historyPrint: 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 RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read beyond the first chapter of St John. Therefore he later...Thomas Wood Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford Charles RollinAncient historyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six volumes. I wanted something to read. I had no one to ...John B. Gough Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'As I was reading with Susan and Sophy today in Rollin's Grecian History it struck me, that when Mardonius offered Terms to the Athenians & Aristides rejected 'em; he str...Hester Thrale and her daughters Sophy and SusannaCharles RollinAncient History Print: Book
1800-1849Continue the perusal of Rollins Ancient History- this work reflects great light upon the sacred volume.I.G. Charles RollinAncient History of the EgyptiansPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 20 February 1829: 'I glanced over some romances metrical publishd by Hartshorne several of which have not seen the light. They are considerably curious but I w...Walter Scott The Revd. C. H. HartshorneAncient Metrical TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph RitsonAncient songs, from the time of King Henry the Thi...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Ancient Universal HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Dornford YatesAnd Five were FoolishPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading a lovely book "And so to Bath" by Cecil Roberts. I must try to get it at home next hols.'Hilary Spalding Cecil RobertsAnd So to BathPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced t...		Howard Smith Cecil RobertsAnd so to BathPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the...		Howard Smith Cecil RobertsAnd so to BathPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting knotted book. Its queer that diaries now pullulate. No...Virginia Woolf Andre GideAndre Gide's Journal 1885-1939Print: Book
1900-1945'In spite of my vague memories of the South African campaigns, Spion Kop and Magersfontein were hardly more real to me than the battles between giants and mortals in the ...Vera Brittain Andrew LangAndrew Lang's Fairy BooksPrint: Book


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