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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
 
1600-1699'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wise in the after none Iohn Corrow and he did read by ...Richard Rhodes Robert Devereux, Earl of EssexApology of the Earl of Essex against those who fal...Print: Book
1850-1899'I hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's "Madamoiselle de Merquem", and listening to noise of marriage party.'John Ruskin George SandMademoiselle de MerquemPrint: Book
1900-1945'I hardly read at all - I read the News Chronicle, it's all I have time for.' News ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I hasten therefore to tell you without a moments delay what did mean to write (or have perhaps written) that the book ["Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas"] in its hum...Joseph Conrad Clarence AndrewsOld Morocco and the Forbidden AtlasPrint: Book
1800-1849'I hate these things of de Q-s in Maga'James Hogg Thomas De Quincy[articles in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I hate to be tantalized in such a way [referring to erratic correspondence]. - It is like being condemned to eat green pease, one by one, with a tooth-pick, a meth...Sarah Harriet Burney Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I haue Continewed my duties or praier and readinge, both findinge my corruption and receiuinge stringthMargaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading David Simple, "which I like well enough, and think there are a great many good reflections to be made from it, and therefore very amusing."
...		Charles Russell Sarah FieldingThe Adventures of David SimplePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say that I am in perfect charity with my critic. I should...Leslie Stephen Henry SidgwickReview of Leslie Stephen's The Science of EthicsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have a copyist now - a thin-faced student in a long gown who writes out for me the manuscript of the Sultan of Qatn for which I have no time: it is six hundred p...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon]Sirat al MutawakkiliyaManuscript: Codex, Arabic history of Yemen
1850-1899'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to Mr Wills, and ask who wrote it; and now, as much wo...Miss Patterson Henry Morley'Brother Mieth and his Brothers'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to Mr Wills, and ask who wrote it; and now, as much wo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry Morley'Brother Mieth and his Brothers'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have a great dislike to having no book 'on hand'; so I made a pilgrimage to our Permanent Library, determined if possible to seize upon Plato. To my great pleasure t...Eliza Ellis Plato PhaedrusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have a poet in stock here, a poor ass in the infirmary with one leg off and the other more than shaky − scrofula you know − but [italics]bougrement[end ita...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley[poems]Unknown
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the...George Crabbe Horace SmithHorace in LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the...George Crabbe Horace SmithRejected AddressesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the...George Crabbe William Wordsworth[poems]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Culen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine e...George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Encyclopaedia re medical colleges]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Life of or by William Cullen]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] Rutherford RussellHistory and Heroes of MedicinePrint: Book


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