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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also...Elizabeth Marsh [unknown][various]Print: Book
1700-1799'I rode to Brighton on my way back, where I spent the evening and slept at the Old Ship, amusing myself besides my novel, with going on with some of the draught or rough ...John Marsh [unknown][a novel]Print: Book
1800-1849'... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use... I bought books, and read as much as possible, and ...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we required, at the sum above named; and thus, for six...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849'"My books" - I have a few of my own - pick up a loom where it can be had; so of course my reading is without choice or system.'William Thom [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849'... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he lent me some of his books and told me many straing thi...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
1800-1849'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pl...Christopher Thomson [unknown][religious tracts]Print: Book, Broadsheet, Pamphlet, tracts
1800-1849'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pl...Christopher Thomson [unknown][religious magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'] 'This accomplished, my next duties were to s...James Glass Bertram [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English magazines for Mr Tait's customers, as also a few copies...James Glass Bertram [unknown][various English periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Canti CarnascialeschiPrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I passed the afternone with Litle readinge because of my secknes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][chronicle of conquest of the Morea]Print: Book
1850-1899'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'.George Henry Lewes [unknown]SeraphimePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][books on plants]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Ancient GeographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Vegetable World, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read about Fourier and Owen'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socia...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was...Thomas Carter [unknown]The MinstrelPrint: Book


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