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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'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons,...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][speeches]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Wormwood Scrubs I lent a work on Henry VIII to a jewel thief. When he returned it, he remarked that he had enjoyed it very much and, if I had another similar book, he... [unknown][Henry VIII]Print: Book
1900-1945'after I had a bath or a wash we would fall to and spend the rest of the evening round the fire, I reading and Kate sewing or knitting. I joined the public library and so...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][lives of the Fathers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of Christ]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of St Paul]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][studies on the Apostles]Print: Book
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'To enumerate some of the books I read would be to write a small catalogue; but I covered a fairly wide range in drama, fiction...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][Greek Philosophy]Print: Book
1800-1849'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stage (or chapter) with Bruce; then half a stage with so...John Mitchel [unknown][Abyssinia]Print: Book
1850-1899'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously, in American Art, and "Progress", and so forth - bu...John Mitchel [unknown]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Eugenia and myself were much interested in reading the trial of Governor Wale who I recollect seeing at Florence - he is condemned to be hanged for flogging a man to dea...Betsey and Eugenia Wynne [unknown][trial of Governor Wale]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I was so ennuyed at my blindness, that one evening I made the Chaplain read me four Sermons, which alleviated my suffering for a time'.Thomas Fremantle [unknown]SermonsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Dec 9 'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging Rancher" Made very little headway.' Newton Barton [unknown]Death Notch the Avenging RancherPrint: Unknown
1850-189913 Mar 'This is written in bad light and the vessel heaving and rolling. Hicks is discovering sweet music on the accordeon. Luce is reading a bulletin 2 years old. Nosey...Luce [unknown][Bulletin]Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went off to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed through the workhouse; read the pestilent literature of ...anon [unknown][pestilent literature of rascaldom]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you will not wonder that I took up the first book that ca...Thomas Carlyle [unknown][unknown novel]Print: Book
1800-1849'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ...Thomas Carlyle [unknown][an Italian Grammar]Print: Book


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