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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'Diary of a Pilgrimage'Sarah Good Jerome K. JeromeDiary of a PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very wits out of my head, for the...Charles Dickens The Terrific RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Did I ever tell you with how great an interest I had read your reminiscences of Carlyle and Mrs C.?'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexander IrelandunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Did I thank you for George's history? I'm reading it now — it's a wonderful book. How wise and sane he is and how brilliantly he presents the picture. The first ch...Gertrude Bell George [?]Trevelyan?British History in the Nineteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Did not get up until 7A.M. as I lay in the bed reading ...'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]
1850-1899'Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time'John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Did not read much tonight -but if all be well I intend to bring up the arears to morrow. (Sat 21 did not read my stated quantity. Friday 20: came into the sitting room a...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Did not sleep at all well last night for I was haunted with the dread of the Papers making a mess of the Case of Weechurch & so causing me a lot of more trouble. When th...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'Did not Virgil mean by his Epithet [italics] Puniceis [end italics] to Rosetis in the fifth Eclogue the rose of Tyrian Dye! The [italics] Punic [end italics] or Damask R...Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson Virgilfifth EcloguePrint: Book
1850-1899'Did you − I forget − did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel Deronda himself? − the Prince of Prigs: the lite...Robert Louis Stevenson George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Did you agree with the scheme the owners put before the coal commission? It looked to me very black if after all those nearly impossible, if not quite impossible, things...Gertrude Bell Ernest J. P. BennConfessions of a CapitalistPrint: Book
1900-1945'Did you ever at Lurgan read the 4th Georgic? It is the funniest example of the colossal ignorance of a great poet that I know. It's about bees, and Virgil's natural hi...Clive Staples Lewis VirgilThe GeorgicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Did you ever come across the "Illustrated Naval & Military Mag."? Genl. Sale-Hill, in the July no. of that periodical, controverts some statements made in "Broadfoot's ...S.P. Oliver Illustrated Naval and Military MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Did you ever happen to come across Professor Reed of Philadelphia. I think he was drowned in returning to America along with his sister-in-law. We have been reading hi...Emily De Quincey Henry Hope ReedLectures on History and Tragic Poetry as Illustrat...Print: Book
1850-1899'Did you ever happen to come across Professor Reed of Philadelphia. I think he was drowned in returning to America along with his sister-in-law. We have been reading hi...Emily De Quincey Henry Hope ReedLectures on English Literature from Chaucer to Ten...Print: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read "Emma", a novel of Miss Austen's? I have seen three or four [italics] Harriet Smiths [end italics] taken up and let down again, and you not being a [it...Louisa, Lady Stuart Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read "The City of the Plague"? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, tenderness, and sublimity are mixed with description...Eleanor Anne Porden John WilsonThe City of the PlaguePrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies and clergymen'.Sydney Smith Honore de BalzacPere GoriotPrint: Book


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