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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you wil...Lady Harriet Cavendish Hester Piozzibiography of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you extremely for your kind present of Doyle's clever "Bird's-eye Views of Society", which have already been highly approved of in this their new form by my daught...Marianne, 'Meta' and Julia GaskellRichard DoyleBird's-eye Views of SocietyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects o...R.B. Graham William BlakeBirds and the Flowers, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, written at Coleorton, commending it as "exquisite".'William Wordsworth James GrahameBirds of ScotlandUnknown
1900-1945'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and all we have about is habits is a note by the bird collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in his third volume (O...William Henry Hudson Edmund SelousBirdwatchingPrint: Book
1900-1945'30th October 1928. I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New Leader?. How funny the Advertiser seems to me rea...Gerald Moore Birkenhead AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thank you very much for sending me the papers — it's a treat to read some B'ham news and know what's going on in Brum.'Bernard Wilfrid Long Birmingham Daily PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding R Brimley JohnsonBirth of Romance, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to readings from the plays of Galsworthy. The plays thus dealt with were: Justice. A bit o' Love. Strife.'Members of XII Book ClubJohn GalsworthyBit o' Love, APrint: Book
1800-1849?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad...James Watson Thomas Jonathan WoolerBlack DwarfPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]Black DwarfPrint: Newspaper, Pamphlet
1800-1849'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett's Register" and "Wooler's Black Dwarf" were the fir...Christopher Thomson Thomas Jonathan WoolerBlack DwarfPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines beginning 'Black eyes may dazzle at a ball'.Catherine Austen anonBlack eyes and Blue eyesUnknown
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Georgette HeyerBlack Moth, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the "Great Randolfo" in the train yesterday and began "Black Oxen" — both very good.' Gertrude Bell Gertrude AthertonBlack OxenPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading Sir. Robert Vansittart's little book "Black Record". I have found it very interesting. He certainly has no use for the Germans, and I am wondering wh...Robert VansittartBlack RecordPrint: Book
1900-1945'I suppose I retained this view for about nine months. My thoughts have now radically changed, and this is due in a marked degree to the reading of Sir Robert Vansittart'...Robert VansittartBlack RecordPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read some numbers of Blackwood and enjoyed myself much more than I should have done had I been gadding about in the wet.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had gone out so I read my magazines by myself & smoked a ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt)Albert Battiscombe Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical


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