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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" ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by ...William Dowsing booksPrint: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom booksPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Thomas Carter on reading enabled at the dame-school run by his mother: '"I [...] gained some profit as well as pleasure by there coming under my mother's care, being ther...Thomas Carter booksPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 26 February 1812: 'The morning at Devonshire House, where I found the Duke in his library with the Marquis Douglas and George Neville, who were looki...The Duke of Devonshire, Marquis Douglas, and George Neville unknownbooksPrint: Book
1600-1699'all morning at my office shut up with Mr Gibson, I walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from the beginning of the Warr, for preventing the Parliame...Richard Gibson [n/a]Books containing the abstracts of ordersManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those books -- and had read them through and through befo...George Gordon Lord Byron Books of Old TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on astronomyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on belle lettresPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper books on historyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on hydraulicsPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'"Samuel Pepys books on laws and statutesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on metaphysicsPrint: Book
1900-1945Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a ...Rupert Brooke books on metrePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on sciencePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet with Edmund Gosse. How often have I said that I wou...Virginia Woolf Edmund GosseBooks on the TablePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on theologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thanks for the copy of "Good Reading". It's a charming little book.'Joseph Conrad John MillarBooks: A Guide to Good ReadingPrint: Book
1850-1899While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by books read at a well-stocked bookstall which she passed ...Hannah Mitchell bookstall stockPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to H. G. Wells, 6 July 1915: 'I was given yesterday at a club your volume "Boon, etc.", from a loose leaf in which I learn that you kindly sent it me [...] I ...Henry James H. G. WellsBoon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the ...Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved


[...]

4. The Subje...

Thomas C. Elliott Victor HugoBooz endormi, from La légende des sièclesPrint: Book


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