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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialised abridgements of Walter Scott novels, with more sen...Frederick Willis n/aUnion JackPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialised abridgements of Walter Scott novels, with more sen...Frederick Willis Walter Scott[various works, abridged]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialised abridgements of Walter Scott novels, with more sen...Frederick Willis n/aChatterbox Christmas AnnualPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareThe Taming of the ShrewPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Christmas Day. Read several Carols this day from the collection pub. by Parker.'John Cole Parker[Collection of Carols]Print: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chap...Christopher Thomson John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chap...Christopher Thomson Samuel Johnson Print: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chap...Christopher Thomson Laurence Sterne Print: Book
1900-1945'Church at 10.30. Stopped a large & lusty ship at 12.0, but it turned out to be a false alarm as usual. Lunch at 12.0. I read all the afternoon, & got the PMO's gra...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Church Doctrine - Bible Truth'Sarah Good Michael Ferrebee SadlerChurch Doctrine, Bible TruthPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Church Lessons or Gladius Ecclesiae'Sarah Good Jonathan Holt TitcombChurch Lessons for Young Churchmen; or, Gladius Ec...Print: Book
1900-1945'Church parade over, the day was before us for what we liked ... Jack Hinchcliffe would come across and sit outside the tent chatting and reading the paper before d...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Herbert George WellsKippsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Church parade over, the day was before us for what we liked ... Jack Hinchcliffe would come across and sit outside the tent chatting and reading the paper before d...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Herbert George WellsTono BungayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Church parade. Cricket against Royal Scots. Did rather well. Won by 1 run. Reading the Browning Love letters in my spare time.' Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barre...Print: Book
1800-1849'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'Mary Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'Mary Shelley Cicero[Second Oration]Print: Book
1800-1849'Circuit preacher Joseph Barker found that theology simply could not compete with Shakespeare: "What pleased me most was the simplicity and beauty of his style. He had a...Joseph Barker William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849'Clare reads the memoir of Madme Ma[n]son aloud to us'Claire Clairmont Francoise Clarisse MansonM?moires de Madame Manson, explicatifs de sa condu...Print: Book
1700-1799'Clarissa Harlowe was not more interesting [than Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the African Slave-Trade] when I first read it at...Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or The History of a Young LadyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the endless variety and modulations are not in themselve...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book


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