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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 to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu...George Gordon Lord Byron The PamphleteerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g...John Cole  Print: Book
1800-1849During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g...John Cole  Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the adv...George Gordon Lord Byron ["the Italian version of the French papers"]Print: Newspaper
Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the adv...George Gordon Lord Byron Quarterly ReviewPrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, [?April 1817]: 'Sir, In your Journal of 27th...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper]Print: NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glenarvon" ... the other a review of C[hilde] Har[ol]d i...George Gordon Lord Byron reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Ch...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a young girl's feet in a missionary book about China, ...Patricia Beer unknown [missionary book about China]Print: Book
1900-1945Of course the book I read most consistently throughout these years was the Bible, but its influence on me, though obviously great, was not directly literary. I never thou...Patricia Beer The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertained -- it requires to be as far from England as I am ...George Gordon Lord Byron [Reviews]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.'George Gordon Lord Byron [obituary]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, formerly explorer of the Loo-Choo Islands and now ...George Gordon Lord Byron [Italian Gazettes]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his review of Hunt [in the Quarterly Review], where he has at...George Gordon Lord Byron Review of Leigh Hunt, FoliagePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's newspaper -- & with all the disfiguration & curtailm...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "The Vampire" with the a...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeum that no one was reading Dickens anymore: he trudge...Neville Cardus The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier The Wreck of the GrosvenorPrint: Book
1500-1599From thence he was sent to Eaton, where he was educated other six years, during all which time he was more than ordinarily studious and industrious; for when other boyes ...William Gouge [unknown]Print: Book
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1600-1699		'He continued in the Colledge for the space of nine years, and in all that time (except he went forth a Town to his friends) he was never absent from morning Prayers in t...William Gouge ScripturesPrint: Book
1600-1699In the order and government of his Family, he was very exemplary. His house was another Bethel, for he did not onely constantly upon conscientious principles use morning...William Gouge ScripturesPrint: Book


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