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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'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.Mary Godwin Christian August VulpiusRinaldo Rinaldini, der RauberhauptmannPrint: Book
1800-1849'Home - by J Conder' 'That is not home, where day by day, /...'Bowly groupJosiah ConderHomeUnknown
1600-1699'Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfaccion in reading thereof.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... tri...Print: Book, Pamphlet
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'John Pepys [n/a][Greek Bible]Print: Book
1600-1699'Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in "Polixandre".'Elizabeth Pepys Martin le Roy de GombervillePolexandrePrint: Book
1600-1699'Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles Will and I had his opinion on it, and still find mor...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...'Samuel Pepys [unknown]An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... tri...Print: Book, Pamphlet
1850-1899'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingNathan der WeisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the Latin Testament, to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Home to tea. Read some of Fratesi's [sic] "In Provincia" which I think is very good. Awfully cold.' Gertrude Bell Mario PratesiIn provincia: novelle e bozzettiPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]Common Prayer BookPrint: Book
1800-1849'Homer I adore as more than human and I never read Popes fine translation without feeling exalted above my self'.Elizabeth Barrett Homer  Print: Book
1850-1899'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.George Eliot [pseud] Homer[book IV - of Iliad?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.George Eliot [pseud] Michael Foster Textbook of PhysiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Hon. Canon of Norwich. Vic. of Ipswich S Mary.'Sarah Good J. R. TurnockOne Body: The Story of the Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Hookham calls here & Shelley reads his romance to him.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley[romance]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Hope' 'Heber' 'Reflected in the lakes of love, ...'Beanlands groupReginald Heber'On Heavenly and Earthly Hope' OR ['Hope']Unknown


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