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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
 
1600-1699
1700-1799		Written in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand a translation of John Foxe's 'The Epitaph upon that Blessed Martyr Walter Mill at St Andrews in Scotland.' Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
1500-1599'and then I read of the book of marters and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1500-1599'and then hard one of the men read of the book of marters, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1500-1599'after the Lector I hard Helurn read of the Book of marters, and talked with Mr Rhodes, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1500-1599'hard one of the men reade of the book of marters, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1500-1599'and after that I hard one of the men read of the book of Marters, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought and hard one read of the book of Marters'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat prairs I went about the house and wrought amonge my Maides, and hard one read of the Booke of Marters'John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have bought a book lately full of general information, & written in a good spirit - that is containing a happy mixture of religious feeling with Science. Its title is ...Sarah Harriet Burney John Mason GoodBook of Nature, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding NehemiahBook of NehemiahPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846), though lately he had ...Max Beerbohm Edward LearBook of NonsensePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): 'At last I seized Thompson's book of prescriptions --...George Gordon Lord Byron Thompsonbook of prescriptionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hilliers”, Northcourt Avenue. 18.XI.40
    Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

[...]

4. Roger Moore gave us a biographical s...		Roger Moore Book of RuthPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finished reading a "Book of Scottish Verse" yesterday - edited by George Burnett. What a number of minor Scottish poets there are of the latter part of last century an...William Soutar George Burnett [ed]Book of Scottish VersePrint: Book
1500-1599At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of the four Empires, and some other Authors, he drew f...James Usher SleidansBook of the Four EmpiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the month in Honitt's "Book of the seasons".'John Cole HonittBook of the seasonsPrint: Book
1600-1699'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so I read over the whole ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Book of TobitPrint: Book
1900-1945'During the interval of waiting, my mind dwelt on the evidences of his mental development during recent months; the many drawings and poems which he had sent us; his enth...John Catlin William BlakeBook of UrizenPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Wisdom of Solomon in the evening aloud. Reads Locke and Political Justice.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Book of Wisdom of SolomonPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include Zechariah I.ii: 'And they answered the Angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees and...Edward Morgan Forster Book of ZechariahPrint: Book


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