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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
 
1900-1945'From the United States Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, inspired by the same thought, sent me an article called "Last Plea for Europe" which he had published in "The Christi...Vera Brittain Oswald Garrison VillardLast Plea for EuropePrint: article published in a periodical
1700-1799'From the vocabularies given in Le Maire's voyage (see Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 410) it appears clearly that the languages given there as...Joseph Banks Charles de BrosseHistoire des Navigations aux Terres AustralesPrint: Book
1800-1849'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working steadily at the banking-house, partaking sparingly of ...George Grote David Ricardo Print: Book
1800-1849'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working steadily at the banking-house, partaking sparingly of ...George Grote historical textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working steadily at the banking-house, partaking sparingly of ...George Grote 'metaphysics'Print: Book
1850-1899'From this time [7pm] till nine o'clock, the prisoners are allowed to read such books as they may have obtained from the library. To show us that the men were generally s...prisoners at Pentonville prison [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'From time to time, Lang writes charming articles in the "Daily News": witness one, a week or so past, on Montaigne: it was a little gem.' Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew Lang[article on Montaigne]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'From what I can judge from the letters Mr Nicholls has entrusted me with, her [Charlotte Bronte's] very earliest way of expressing herself must have been different to co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1500-1599
1600-1699		'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.' Gabriel Harvey unknownItalian grammarsPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.' Gabriel Harvey unknownSpanish grammarsPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.' Gabriel Harvey unknownFrench grammarsPrint: Book
1800-1849'full of good & useful matter'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth James Kay-ShuttleworthProof of a report on Battersea Teacher-Training Sc...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'full of his living wit & wisdom, & not without some of his flippancy on solemn themes, however there is so much of manly justice in the whole argument that I could only ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Sydney SmithA Fragment on the Irish Roman ChurchManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read a "Memoir of the Queen of Prussia" in 1822'.Felicia Hemans unknownMemoir of the Queen of PrussiaPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'G Ebers, Homo Sum (German)'Sarah Good Georg EbersHomo SumPrint: Book
1850-1899'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson's adventure with a Russian Princess'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[a farce]Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.'George Eliot (pseud) Denis DiderotLe Nevue de RameauPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. Elliot, The Mill on the Floss'Sarah Good George EliotThe Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1850-1899'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'.George Henry Lewes [unknown]SeraphimePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.'George Henry Lewes William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book


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