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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'dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronWernerManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Dined at Hall's. Came home & Read until I went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T. Trice; which I read, and like it.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][chancery Bill drawn against Trice]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'dined at Lord Bexley's, afterwards led to many fears - worry about showing off - But a few words in the Proverbs encouraged me "Reproofs of instruction are the way of li...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Proverbs)Print: Book
1900-1945'Dined on soup and chicken at 5. Read Whymper's book. Cold and mist all round. Decide on an easy day tomorrow as I rather feel the effects of the first day's gymnastics. ...Gertrude Bell Edward WhymperScrambles among the Alps in the years 1860-69Print: Book
1900-1945'Dined with 'A' Company. Read the Browning Love Letters at night, in bed. Disappointed, though not displeased. Felt I could have written a better love letter myself in sp...Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barre...Print: Book
1600-1699'dined, reed of the bible, walked abroad'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Dinner. Coffee and rest in my room. Read Observer carefully. Supper and bed at 9.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook The ObserverPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1700-1799'Dipped into Bacon's "Essays"; so pregnant with just, original, and striking observations on every topic which is touched, that I cannot select what pleases me most...'Thomas Green Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...'Thomas Green James BoswellThe life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Print: Book
1800-1849'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's wor...Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's wor...Thomas Carlyle Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Discharged from Hospital. No word from the Air Board ... Swept paths etc and read and smoked. Chilly day rather. Mum bad gout in foot.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849
1900-1945		'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or the world of ambition greed & snobbery. So its effe...Edward Morgan Forster Arthur Hugh CloughDipsychusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Disputes run very high here upon the subject of ''Violet''. Some of the party are quite convinced it is written by a woman and have some suspicions it is Mrs Marsh ......Emma Wedgwood Marian Dora Malet BeasleyViolet; or the DanseusePrint: Book
1850-1899'Disraeli's, Tulloch's and Greyfriars' addresses were all three excellent; Disraeli's brilliant.'Robert Louis Stevenson newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you. I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have nothing else to do.'Jane Austen George Gordon, Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1900-1945'Do not fail to get the Literary Supplement to the New York Times for Oct 4th & see W.L. Alden?s extraordinary appreciation of "Anna". He says it is the best novel of th...Arnold Bennett W.L. Aldenarticle/review of "Anna of the Five Towns"Print: Newspaper, Literary Supplement
1800-1849'Do not oblige him to read any more. - Have mercy on him and tell him the truth [about the authorship of Austen's novels] & make him an apology...he deserves better treat...Mr Wildman Jane AustennovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the first time. I have had it by heart these five weeks. I...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottLegend of Montrose, APrint: Book


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