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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'Read the pamphlet Mr Boswell recommended:, natural, certainly, and the man had too much provocation for his act.'George Crabbe [unknown][pamphlet]Print: Pamphlet
1600-1699'After my praier and readinge I went into the feedles with Mistress Thornbrow ... and, after she was gone, I went to priuat praier and readinge, and so to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - very kindly prest me to accept a Volume & a very ple...George Crabbe [unknown][Miscellany]Print: Book
1800-1849'With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon the Subject: it is rather unmerciful, but I must bear...George Crabbe [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe [unknown][Travels]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to Mr Egertons sermon and so, within litle time, I went to priuat readinge and praier, and settinge downe some notes I had Colected'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen to music.'Antonia White [unknown]['trash']Print: Book
1500-1599'and after reed a while, and so went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very near to a case I read, long since, in the Trials of W...George Crabbe [unknown][book on witchcraft trials]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking Man of good Sense & a stedd[y] Believer in what he do...George Crabbe [unknown][unknown work on religious enthusiasm]Print: Book
1900-1945'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'Antonia White [unknown][MSS by or about Carlyle]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has...Antonia White [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.Antonia White [unknown]['lives of painters']Print: Book
1900-1945'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.Antonia White [unknown]['journals of poets']Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete page of scholastic divinity, which must have been bet...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][scholastic divinity essays]Print: Book
1900-1945'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at ... [unknown][French novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White [unknown][a life of George Eliot]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I walked and was veseted by my Cousine Cookes wiffe, and, after they were gone, I went to readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After prairs, I reed and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I reed, and went to diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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