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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'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.'John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Got a large packet of letters by my cyclist orderly, including a charming little edition of the Imitation of Christ from Sonia.'Ralph Gerard Alexander Hamilton Thomas à KempisImitation of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'Got a parcel from London "Eltons Brothers" "Allins Grammar" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines "internal evidences of religion" the gift of Lord Radstock [...] a very se...John Clare Thomas ErskineRemarks on the Internal Evidence for the TruthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Got C.O.'s car at Omer at 10.30. Arrived 65 at 12.30, foggy. Patrol out but got lost. Shanks & Kennedy crashed. OK.
Read in afternoon and played new records. Down ...		Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899'Got home a little after nine o'clock & after a little reading and two or three pipes had a bath & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Got home about ten, sat reading till about twelve, & then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Got home to tea & after tea listened to Polly who read a manuscript Miss McDermott wanted to get an opinion about. It was a very [?] thrilling story for young ladies, bu...Polly Castieau Miss McDermott[story]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Got on in the evening the best way that I could, amusing myself for an hour or more in looking up some old papers & reading through printed papers that I had published f...John Buckley Castieau John Buckley Castieau[papers]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Got out of the mine about 6 A.M. had some tea & read the paper a bit & saw in the list of deaths, the death of Mary Ann wife of Lot Brewer. I think it is my old scho...James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got some Beechworth Papers, great Leading Article regarding the dismissal of Stewart & the Turnkeys.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with the account of Mr Lambton in the "Monthly Mag". the...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with the account of Mr Lambton in the "Monthly Mag". the...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Got the Face without a Frown — Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Iris Leveson Gower. This is the one with the magnificent hats. The author has made a splendid story...Vere Hodgson Iris Leveson GowerThe Face without a Frown: Georgiana, Duchess of De...Print: Book
1900-1945'Got to bed at about midnight again after finding a landscape of Messines and Wulverghem in our house in an illustrated Paper drawn for the same view or nearly so as on...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [n/a] [n/a]Daily GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got to-day from Beechworth a number of different copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was not very much in them however that interested me.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got up about 7A.M. had some tea & commenced to read. I read a Christian Age & some from a book by Thos Guthrie, 'Man & the Gospel' which I enjoy very much. I then ...James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]The Christian AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got up about 7A.M. had some tea & commenced to read. I read a Christian Age & some from a book by Thos Guthrie, 'Man & the Gospel' which I enjoy very much. I then ...James Bennetts Williams Thomas GuthrieMan and the GospelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Got up about 7A.M. had some tea & commenced to read. I read a Christian Age & some from a book by Thos Guthrie, 'Man & the Gospel' which I enjoy very much. I then ...James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Got up about 8 A.M. after I tidy'd up my house I had a cup of tea then read a good bit in the Christian Age ...'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]The Christian AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got up in a funk & sent for the Age, was delighted to find the Article about the Gaol was not inserted'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper


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