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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
 
1800-1849I am so delighted with Barrow?s note on the qualities of Tobacco (communicated by Harfield) that I can think of nothing else.Charles Dickens Barrow[note on the qualities of tobacco]Print: Unknown, possibly appeared in newspaper The Morning Chronicle
1800-1849?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father?s birthday, but I shall do it up in my own room, an...Maria Edgeworth Charles Robert DallasHistory of the Maroons, from their origin to the e...Print: Book
1800-1849?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the celebrated palace of Chantilly, made still more int...Maria Edgeworth Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse)Mademoiselle de ClermontPrint: Book
1800-1849?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming story of Mademoiselle de Clermont on Madame de Genlis?s ...Maria Edgeworth BretonVoyage dans les Pays BasPrint: Book
1800-1849?Charlotte cordials me twice a day with Cecilia, which she reads charmingly, and which entertains me as much at the third reading as it did at the first.?Maria Edgeworth Fanny BurneyCeciliaPrint: Book
1800-18497/1/1827 ? ?Then read the first part of Mary Dudley?s Life; felt true unity with her experience when first called to the ministry. What a bright course was hers! ?Amelia Opie Mary Dudley Print: Book
1800-18497/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profess...Amelia Opie Hugh TwyfordThe Grounds of Holy LifePrint: Book
1800-18498/1/1827 ? ?Finished M. R. Milford?s pretty book, and write out my new fable.?Amelia Opie M R Milford Print: Book
1800-18497/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profess...Amelia Opie Apostle PaulAddress to AgrippaPrint: Book
1800-184914/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'Amelia Opie John GaltThe Life and administration of Cardinal WolseyPrint: Book
1800-184914/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'Amelia Opie [n/a]PsalmPrint: Book
1800-1849'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm...Elizabeth Inchbald RescoeThe Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book
1800-184919/6/1847 ? 'I have been reading the life of Sarah Martin; it made me shed many tears, from the sense of her superior virtue, and my own inferiority. What an example she ...Amelia Opie unknownLife of Sarah MartinPrint: Book
1800-1849?Well, I do remember the pleasure Mr Opie expressed in reading a proverb in one act, taken from the French of ?Carmontel?, and published by Mr Holcroft, with other entert...John Opie HolcroftTheatrical recorderPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'27/1/1833 ? Read Carne?s "letters from the East", which, though not new to me, were most pleasing; so absorbed with his accounts of the Holy Land, I could scarcely quit ...Amelia Opie John CarneLetters from the EastPrint: Book
1800-1849'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of every opportunity that has offered itself of religious ...Amelia Opie ScripturesPrint: Book
1800-1849?Here Hayley kept his books and manuscripts and the choicest pieces of his famous collection of Chinese porcelain. The walls were adorned with prints and drawings, and he...Amelia Opie William Hayley Manuscript: Plays
1800-1849?The little Frys found the hours very long when they sat in the large, rather austere drawing-room, trying not to fidget, while their mother read aloud to them long chapt...Elizabeth Fry BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter n/aCourierPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?Mrs Opie?s was essentially a happy temperament and with such adaptability as she possessed, quiet home evenings were not without their charms; even when her husband sat ...Amelia Opie Amelia Opie[her own works]Manuscript: Unknown


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