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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'Thanks for Cyrano. I haven't read it yet but will do so before the sun rises again.' [A week later Conrad wrote: 'Je ne suis bon qu'à lire Cyrano and such like coglione...Joseph Conrad Edmond RostandCyrano de BergeracPrint: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill XenophonCyropaediaPrint: Book
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1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's Commonplace Book (Add.Ms., 32, 494 British Museum) contains transcribed quotations from "Cyvile and uncyvile Lyfe" (1579).Gabriel Harvey Cyvile and uncyvile LyfePrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ...John Buchan Alexandre DumasD'Artagnan cyclePrint: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners (1924).Edward Morgan Forster Norman DouglasD. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Bett...Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'Virginia Woolf Jessie ChambersD. H. Lawrence: A Personal RecordPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me it was wonderful to see in print for the first time ?...Winifred Agnes Moore MontagueD?senchantementPrint: Book
1900-1945'I could begin to read one of the books that had been given me ... and lose myself in another world. [Followed by a list of books read]'Eileen Lawrence Jean WebsterDaddy-Long-LegsPrint: Book
'[Johnson said] "King James says in his 'Daemonology', 'Magicians command the devils: witches are their servants. The Italian magicians are elegant beings'."'Samuel Johnson King James IDaemonologyPrint: Book
1700-1799Witness statement in the trial of James Stewart for theft: James James (Witness): "afterwards I saw the advertisement in the 'Daily Advertiser' about the prisoner at t...James James Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in a trial for highway robbery William Aldrich: "on the 23rd of June, at half past ten at night, the prisoner Hanlon brought me a watch to pledge... ...William Aldrich Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial of Sarah Evans for murder Thomas Aris: "The first thing I heard of the child being drowned, I saw it in the paper, saying, the child of Sara...Thomas Aris Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft: Thomas Jones: "reading the 'Daily Advertiser' and finding they were advertised, I went out and fetched them from Mr Humphreys...Thomas Jones Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft: Benjamin Bunn: "I am a pawnbroker and live in Houndsditch... I was reading the 'Daily Advertiser', and I saw an advertisement...Thomas Jones Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been looking over the papers there I read about Mr Parker's ...John Wyn Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been looking over the papers there I read about Mr Parker's ...John Wyn Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft: George Martin: [prisoner offered him cup for sale] "the next morning I read it in the 'Daily Advertiser', only in the paper i...George Martin Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: Charles Clark: "On the 18th of November, in the forenoon, Mary English came and pledged four silver t...Charles Clark Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing: Thomas Burch: "On Monday morning the 7th of July, the prisoner brought this watch to me... I lent him two guineas on it; ...Thomas Burch Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for fraud: Thomas Douglas: "I saw this advertisement in the Daily Advertiser of the 1st of March last. (It is read to the court)... In conse...Thomas Douglas Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper


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