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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'ELLEN: looks up from the "Sketch", which she has been reading: "How do you pronounce M-Y-R-R-H"?'Ellen [unknown]SketchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It is a bitterly cold evening, towards the end of February. The fire is very low, and at the moment is rather smothered by small coal and slack. Miss V. is sitting over ...Miss V [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Whereas Kay was always trying to read or knit when she sat down, Louise is doing nothing at all, and so can be quite undisturbed by the constant clawing of sticky hands ...Kay [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'The English student said that he had read an English novel in which a similar idea was suggested. One German was very much annoyed at hearing that the idea had been put ... [unknown][English novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company", while I read the first chapter of Silone's "Bread ... [unknown]Low CompanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Also told me he had been commissioned to write a history of Dudley a few days back. Had declined. We went back and read until 12 o'clock.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'6.30-8 p.m. read. 8 p.m. supper. 9 p.m. bath and bed. I saw nothing stirring or peculiar. The only funny thing was the name of a row of houses, Amble Tonia.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e rotundo/ ...'; [total = 37 lines]Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [unknown]Poesie di OssianPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I prepare supper and we eat it. Listen to news. I continue to read.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'At half past two I was dry, and eating the remnants of my lunch. I switched on the wireless and listened to the Coronation ceremony. When this had finished I read a book... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that have already been published, as every one has been ...Joseph Banks [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'"I've been calm all week, but yesterday I listened to the news bulletin and I got a bad dose of jitters. I read somewhere that they're going to move London to Canada, a... [unknown][news bulletin]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Oh, I have strained my eyes trying to read, and had to give it up in the end. I call it dismal, sitting for half an hour or more in a dark, gloomy carriage, so's you can... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Well, I took it because it's a thriller. That's the reason. I like thrillers, you see. I always read thrillers.' [unknown][thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Course I know what you're talking about, I read about it all in the paper, used to read books about it, they've made a new car so's it's easier to drive, more profit for... [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Never thought much about it, took it for granted. One thing it's done is make people's nerves on edge all the time, wars and all that, get sick of it. . . . Pictures you... [unknown][newspaper?]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I read them every Sunday, many a time it's been true, but they don't give you so much bad news. When it was my birthday they said I should get a surprise. I got one. It ... [unknown][horoscopes]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'From my early years I was always a lover of books, and I well remeber when we lived in a solitary place that my mother on going to a neighbouring town, always bought me ...Robert White [unknown]'a penny history'Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Long ago!'; [Text] 'Long ago!` Oh long ago!/ Do not these words recall past years?/ And scarcely knowing why they flo... [unknown]Long ago!Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Even while exerting myself to the utmost on the farm, I was not without my own pleasure, for during my leisure hours I read all the books and especially those consisting...Robert White [unknown]'poetry and border ballads'Print: Book


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