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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
 
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter [unknown][volumes by the British Essayists]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter Joseph Addison[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused "Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson"; which I still consider to be a very amusing and very instructive piece of biograph...Thomas Carter James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Nice, January 1803: 'In spite of my headaches yesterday, I contrived to read nearly three volumes of Madame de Stael's Delphine [...] It is...Mary Berry Germaine De StaelDelphine (three volumes)Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter James Cook[narratives of voyages]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Jean Fran?ois de Galaup La P?rouse[narratives of voyages]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Louis Antoine de Bougainville[narratives of voyages]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter James Bruce[narratives of travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Fran?ois Le Vaillant[narratives of travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Isaac Weld[narratives of travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'While walking to Hampstead, I strayed into a copse not far from my road, where I seated myself upon the trunk of a tree, and read, with no small pleasure, several of the...Thomas Carter Christoph Christian SturmReflections on the Works of God and of His Provide...Print: Book
1800-1849Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on specific local journeys e.g. Cupar to Perth, dated '1...Agnes Halkerston James DuncanScotch itinerary, containing the roads through Sco...Print: Book
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshopWilliam CobbettWeekly Political RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop n/aThe Independent WhigPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter n/aThe Independent WhigPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter William CobbettWeekly Political RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from "Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy" - which is a small [/] sin it must be owned, the said P...Thomas Carlyle Joseph PlantaHistory of the Helvetic ConfederacyPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ...Thomas Carlyle John BristedAmerica and her ResourcesPrint: Book


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