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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'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi...Thomas Carter Ebenezer HendersonIceland, or the Journal of a Residence in that Isl...Print: Book
1800-1849'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi...Thomas Carter William Edward ParryJournal of a Voyage to discover a North-West Passa...Print: Book
1850-1899'During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Jukes, the "Horae Apocalypticae" of a Mr. Elliott. This ...Edmund Gosse Bishop Edward ElliottHorae ApocalypticaePrint: Book
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespear...Lawrence Durrell Philip Sidney[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespear...Lawrence Durrell Christopher Marlowe[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespear...Lawrence Durrell Thomas Nashe[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespear...Lawrence Durrell Robert Greene[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespear...Lawrence Durrell Cyril Tourneur[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespear...Lawrence Durrell Peel[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'D[inner] Stew, potatoes, rice. Read "The Call of the Wild". Dozed.'John Frederick William Dunn Jack LondonThe Call of the WildPrint: Book
1700-1799'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjam...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownepitaph of Josias Franklin and wifeUnknown
1700-1799'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjam...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownepitaph of Benjamin FranklinUnknown
1700-1799'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjam...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownepitaph "taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Mars...Unknown
1800-1849'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] made copies of extracts or complete texts from Philips' Collection in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between 10 July 1807 and c.5 J...Dorothy Wordsworth Ambrose PhilipsCollection of Old Ballads, APrint: Book
1800-1849'E- being called out for a few hours in the morning I attempted to amuse myself with Marmontel's Tales- it was but an attempt. For I hurried thro' them 'quite upon thorns...William Upcott Jean Francois MarmontelMoral TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'E. reads the shipwreck of the Wager to us in the Evening'Edward Williams John G. Dalyell [account of shipwreck of Wager in] Shipwrecks and...Print: Book
1900-1945'E. [Edward] Grey's book, of which I have already read a considerable portion, has certainly the charm of a genuine feeling expressed in plain language worthy of a great ...Joseph Conrad Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of FallodonRecreationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Each day there is a "Budget" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consisting of the various "officials" taken from the German p...Douglas Lyall Grant unknown unknown[POW camp publication]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening class to learn English grammar and literature. And wha...Vero Walter Garratt Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening class to learn English grammar and literature. And wha...Vero Walter Garratt Joseph AddisonunknownPrint: Book


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