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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
 
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman (nursemaid) and Mew children Christmas numbers of magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you to read them, because they are too much perhaps. I ...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensChristmas Stories (2, unnamed)Print: Book
1850-1899Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 25 April 1850: 'I have read re-read marked learned & [italics]]really[end italics] inwardly digested your last Poem [...] Well then ...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningChristmas-Eve and Easter-DayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mrs Molesworth, Christmas Tree Land'Sarah Good Mary MolesworthChristmas-Tree LandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but at bottom another of the same.-'Thomas Carlyle Johann Gottfried GruberChristop Martin WielandPrint: Book
1900-1945"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him": MS note in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, GOT's son. George Otto Trevelyan Elizabeth Von ArnimChristopher and ColumbusPrint: Book
1900-1945'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.", and a Times reader likes reading the Women's page. Another Chronicle reader aged 64 l... ChroniclePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.", and a Times reader likes reading the Women's page. Another Chronicle reader aged 64 l... ChroniclePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Well, I think I really didn't think they were going too well really. I read the leading article in the Chronicle... they try to make things look as bright as possible, I... ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'I am reading the Cid.'Dorothy Wordsworth Robert SoutheyChronicle of the Cid, ThePrint: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton SpeedChronicle of the Life of King JamesPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William Roughead, 29 January 1914:'I devoured the tender Mary Blandy [subject of one of Roughead's chronicles of murder trials] in a single feast [...] You...Henry James William Rougheadchronicle of trial of Mary BlandyUnknown
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my chil...Mary Russell Mitford Jean FroissartChroniclesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'Cecil King Jean FroissartChroniclesPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1874): 'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thinking about a play of "Queen Mary," and has sketched...Alfred and Emily Tennyson HolinshedChroniclesPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Jean FroissartChroniclesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Elizabeth Ann Smith Jean FroissartChroniclesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Robert Lindsay of PitscottieChronicles of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849Reading of Brotier, Chronological Supplement [to de la Malle's Tacitus] recorded by Claire Clairmont on 4, 5, 6 April 1820.Claire Clairmont Gabriel BrotierChronological SupplementPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Chrononhotonthologus'Mary Godwin Henry CareyChrononhotonthologos; the most tragical tragedy th...Print: Book


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