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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
 
1900-1945'I bought yesterday a little shilling book about Wm. Morris, his life and his work, which is rather interesting. To me, at least, for I am afraid you have given up that...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Clutton-BrockWilliam Morris: his Work and InfluencePrint: Book
1900-1945'I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read "Pickwick Papers", pausing now and then to anoint myself with face cream.'Frank Smythe Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again....Lord Lansdowne Caroline ClivePaul FerrollPrint: Book
1850-1899'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again....Lord Lansdowne Caroline Clivepoems (unspecified)Print: Book
1700-1799'I brought a volume of Dr. Hurd the Bishop of Worcester's "Sermons", and read to the company some passages from one of them, upon this text, "Resist the Devil, and he wil...James Boswell Richard HurdSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I brought from the Library "Pennant's [Views?] of London", out of which I drew a view of the Savoy Hospital'Joseph Hunter Thomas PennantAccount of LondonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I called at Squire's [...] my advertisement was not in the Daily Courant. Went into St Dunstan's Church to hear Dr Lupton [is too late] went to the [Royal]Society, Sir I...John Byrom n/aThe Daily CourantPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1600-1699'I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of Northamptonshire - which came out this afternoon.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]The humble address and hearty desires of the gentl...Print: Broadsheet
1850-1899'I came across a piece of verse which exercised a lasting influence on my taste. It was called "The Cameronian's Dream" and it had been written by a certain James Hyslop....Edmund Gosse James HyslopThe Cameronian's DreamPrint: Book
1850-1899'I came across the news of the death of Bradshaw in the papers just now.'Sir Walter Raleigh n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I came away rather early for I had a lesson at 5. My Pundit was extremely pleased with me, he kept congratulating me on my proficiency in the Arabic tongue! I think his ...Gertrude Bell The KoranPrint: Book
1850-1899'I came back & read some extracts from the Christian Age, am now going to bed about 8-30 P.M.'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]The Christian AgePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I came back in the afternoon ... and had a nice service for the Column in one of the huts close by. We carried the piano over from the mess. No news from the front much ...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I came home and read Hudibras and William Byrd ...'William Richard Grahame Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1500-1599'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read a whill of the Bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I came in just now, having been to Wertheim's to buy a pair of gloves for 4 marks, and meant to go on with my story of the bank clerk who loses his memory, but having st...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfOrlandoPrint: Book
1850-1899'I came up from Lincolnshire to town on Monday and went down that night to Magdalen to read my Catullus, but while lying in bed on Tuesday morning with Swinburne (a copy ...Oscar Wilde Algernon Charles SwinburneunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to state what are original propensities, and to trace o...Sydney Smith George Combe[probably] A System of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I can no longer settle to fiction to anything like the extent I did before the war. Could read nothing but Jane Austen's Emma when war broke out. I read about the same a...Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I can only tell you, that if you please to read Sir Paul Rycaut, you will there find a full and true account of the viziers, the [italics] beglerbeys [italics], the civi...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Sir Paul RycautunknownPrint: Book


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