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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
 
1800-1849have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the Norman Conquest.Adam Mackie David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' EnglandAdam Mackie David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Reading astromomy at even. [ I suspect this is Scott's Guy Mannering, the Astrologer]Adam Mackie [Astronomy]Unknown
1800-1849Was engaged this forenoon sorting some lint yarn, and all the rest of my spare time reading [Guy] ManneringAdam Mackie Walter ScottGuy Mannering, or the AstrologerPrint: Book
1800-1849I have been in the shop all day and during the intervals of business reading Scott's novel of RedgauntletAdam Mackie Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1800-1849I continue in the shop; am occupying my spare time reading Scott's novel of the Abbot. The subject is cheifly on the manner of Queen Mary's imprisonment in the Castle of ...Adam Mackie Walter ScottThe AbbotPrint: Book
1800-1849I have been engaged this day posting my shop books etc. during my spare time reading a novel- The Pirate [Scott]Adam Mackie Walter ScottThe PiratePrint: Book
1800-1849Reading Scott's Tales of My Landlord. Consists of the prosecutions and slaughters by the Military [of] Covenanters in Charles 2nd's time. Scene of the story lies in the ...Adam Mackie Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849Employed myself reading Constables Miscellany- voyages, mutinies and shipwrecks in the Southern OceanAdam Mackie Archibald ConstableMiscellanyPrint: Book
1800-1849??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured disc...Samuel Bamford William CobbettWeekly RegisterPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured disc...Samuel Bamford William Hone[political pamphlets]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849?They [wife and child] had been at prayers, and were reading the Testament before retiring to rest?. Samuel Bamford's wife and child [n/a]The TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to his work as a dialect poet: "I must confess that my...Ben Brierley [penny horror stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to his work as a dialect poet: "I must confess that my...Ben Brierley [penny fairy stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to his work as a dialect poet: "I must confess that my...Ben Brierley Robert Burns Print: Book
1800-1849'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to his work as a dialect poet: "I must confess that my...Ben Brierley George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelle...Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]New Testament, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonAreopagitica: a Speech of Mr John Milton for the L...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, A. Written for the Universal Improv...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley August von KotzebueDas merkw?rdigste Jahr meines LebensPrint: Book


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