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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'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants.....Amelia Roberts [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary O'Connor, the woman first appointed to be school-mistress to her fellow-prisoners, conducted herself with much propriety in that office and in every other respect w...Mary O'Connor [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834. From the period of her conviction, her mind seems to have been exercised with a sense of her sinful state; and she frequently said,...Mary Joy [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She was indeed in bad health at the time of her coming to Newgate; she believed she should not recover, and her dread of death w...Mary Joy [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She remained in Newgate till the month of January, when a pardon was obtained for her; and she removed to a very humble lodging,... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On passing through the infirmary one day, I fo... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On passing through the infirmary one day, I fo...Eliza Cooper [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ...Eliza Cooper [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ... [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'The case of Maria Manning is not one which it can be in any measure satisfactory to dwell upon ... Manning requested to see the visitor who had attended her in Newgate o... [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read some numbers of Blackwood and enjoyed myself much more than I should have done had I been gadding about in the wet.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Great article abusive of Wackerow appeared in Ovens & Murray this morning'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read the paper at Hutchinson's in the afternoon.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I took a stroll as far as the Mechanics read the papers came home had some toddy & a bath & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was busy with prison business till past nine o clock, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home had some toddy'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Had a little barney with Polly, owing to my reading some cutting remarks by "a woman" "on women" in the Broadway Magazine. I skipped all the hits at the man & [read?] a...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Broadway MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read the Papers at [the Mechanics?]'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown- newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. The Reading Room was very hot & I could not bring my m...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown- periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical


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