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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
 
1850-1899'Read at the Athenaeum.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'read greek - read Mackenzies works'Mary Shelley [unknown][Ancient Greek works]Print: Book
1800-1849' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore of it as in learning another language although it b...Mary Shelley [unknown][Greek texts]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, hard mr Rhodes read praies, and went to bed'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I was reading - I heard a voice say "Mary" - "It is S...Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'After I was readie I praied, then reed of the bible and an other good book, and after 10 a cloke...'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being burnt down, my attention was caught by one of the v...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][advertisement]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
1800-1849'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliq...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliq...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]Print: Broadsheet, Pamphlet
1600-1699'then Mr Hoby reed to me and an other gentlewoman Came to me, with whom I talked tell 5 a Clocke'Thomas Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had gone about some busenes I praied priuatly, and after reed and took a lecture'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, when I Came in, I reed a litle of humanitie, and then went to priuat examenation and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did read, eate, and went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied and reed, some of my freinds came, with whom I talked'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed, talked with my phesition and som other gentlewemen, and so went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards [unknown][history]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards [unknown][great poets' works]Print: Book
1800-1849'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being f...Jane Sewell [unknown]History of MontezumaPrint: Book


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