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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'Colonel Enderby's Wife'Sarah Good Lucas MaletColonel Enderby's WifePrint: Book
1800-1849'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I think it may do very well for reading out, which I be...Sydney Smith Daniel DefoeColonel Jack - The History and Remarkable Life Of ...Print: Book
1850-1899'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of the treatment used towards me; and particularly the "...John Mitchel [n/a]Colonial TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Allen GrantColour Sense: its Origin and Development, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'That vol[ume]["Colour Studies in Paris"] is full of charm and contains many pages of rare distinction and luminous like pearls[...].'Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsColour Studies in ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really feared being obliged to give up a singularly good illu...Harriet Martineau Columbo almanackPrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... From this time the poor prisoner earnestly lon...Eliza Cooper [unknown]Come to JesusPrint: Book, Pamphlet, tract
1800-1849"As I thought I could easily learn Italian, I took lessons from Signor D'Albrione... So we read together part one of the comedies of Goldoni...."Thomas Cooper GoldoniComediesPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding R Brimley JohnsonComedy of Life, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699"Foremost among ... [John Flamsteed's] critics was ... [Robert] Hooke, whose Cometa Flamsteed read with disdain ... [suggesting] that Hooke's prescriptions for astronomic...John Flamsteed Robert HookeCometaPrint: Book
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before... [n/a]Comic CutsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read the Treasury this morning almost from cover to cover. I love the thing on “shepherd.” Also the Sketch and Comic Cuts inside it!'Philip Thomas Byard Clayton Comic CutsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthComic DramasPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'Mary Shelley Maria EdgeworthComic dramas, in three actsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish Bulls.' ...Claire Clairmont Maria EdgeworthComic Dramas, in Three ActsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Humourous [sic] & Pathetic. Worth reading.'Sarah Good Helen MathersComin' thro' the Rye: A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the front room and sometimes, on warm summer evenings, in t...Harriet Beer Coming Through the RyePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christoph Martin WielandComische ErzahlungenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Alfred Rawlings E.H. PlumptreCommedia and Canzoniere of Dante AlighieriPrint: Book
1800-1849'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & some are grave, but all full of action, & with a great...Sarah Harriet Burney Giovanni GiraudCommediePrint: Book


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