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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
 
1800-1849Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been discussion in ye. Courier & I read in ye. Mo[rning] Po...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been discussion in ye. Courier & I read in ye. Mo[rning] Po...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla...Francis Place various [Law books]Print: Book
1700-1799I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla...Francis Place various [biographies]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [history]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [voyages]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [politics and law]Print: Book
1700-1799I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly...Francis Place [geometry text]Print: Book
1700-1799[Proceedings of the London Corresponding Society] The usual mode of proceeding at these weekly meetings was this. The chairman read from some book a chapter or part of a ...Members of the London Corresponding Society  Print: Book
1700-1799I used to plod at the French Grammar as I sat at my work, the book being fixed before me I was diligent also in learning all I could after I left off working at night.Francis Place unknown [French grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the day was closed, which never happened till half past...Francis Place  Print: Book
1900-1945'Jailed for sufragette disruptions, millworker Annie Kenney rediscovered the Bible, "and I interpreted it quite differently in prison to the way I had interpreted it outs...Annie Kenney [Bible]Print: Book
1900-1945'Despite the disapproval of her comrade Palme Dutt, Helen Crawfurd found Communist propaganda in Scripture... According to her unauthorized version, "the Lamb dumb before...Helen Crawfurd [Bible - Psalms]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isa...George Gordon Lord Byron The Book of JobPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isa...George Gordon Lord Byron The Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isa...George Gordon Lord Byron The Book of DeborahPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... ' George Gordon Lord Byron advertisement for William Sotheby, Five Tragedies ...Print: Advertisement
1800-1849Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the contradiction of a paragraph copied from the Durham p...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning ChroniclePrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, alluded to by her in letter to him] -- it is just to yo...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in one of his amatory epistles compared himself to Chi...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning ChroniclePrint: NewspaperUnknown


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