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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
 
1600-1699'After I was readie, and had praied and reed, I walked'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemne...Antonia White [unknown][Catholic texts]Print: Book
1900-1945'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'.Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic word.'Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walt...Antonia White [unknown][writings about religion, Church History, etc]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed and wrought and was Vesited by my brother, and, after I had praied and suped, I reed and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'chiefly was I charm'd and ravish'd with the Sweets of Poetry; all my Hours were dedicated to the Muses; and from a Reader, i quickly became a Writer'.Laetitia van Lewen [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be ho...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][letters to Swift from various correspondents]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[having quoted from sermons and poetical works, including Swift, Young and her husband, on the subject of adultery Pilkington says] 'I must beg my Reader's Pardon for the...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I own myself very indiscreet in permitting any Man to be at an unseasonable Hour in my Bed-Chamber; but Lovers of Learning will, I am sure, pardon me, as I solemnly decl...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I can't but let my Readers see my Vanity, in inserting the following Poems, written to me since I came to [italics] Dublin [end italics], and do assure them, I have as m...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][commendatory verses by various admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'My Landlady, who was really a Gentlewoman, and he [a Gentleman LP knew from Ireland], and I diverted away the Time with Ombre, Reading, and Pratling, very tolerably'Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[Having agreed to let her landlady lodge a Dr Turnbull in her (LP's) bedchamber] 'I went up to my own Apartment, where I found the Doctor reading'George Turnbull [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I was going to proceed, when Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] interrupted me; I was, said he, at the Duke of [italics] Richmond[end italics]'s last Summer, when his Dau...Emilia, Lady Lennox [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I grew so melancholy at the Loss of my Companion, that I did not even care for writing, but amused myself entirely with reading; and my not having a Library of my own, m...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives a Man the Air of a Politician, for the same Reason ...George Rooke [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar [end italics], and [italics] Brutus [end italics] f...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][books on Roman History]Print: Book, Pamphlet
1700-1799'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, to translate a [italics] French Chanson a boire [end ...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][a French drinking song]Unknown
1700-1799[various benefactors including Colley Cibber having helped her, LP is released from the Marshalsea] 'When I read over these Words, [italics] Discharge from your Custody t...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][prison discharge document]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I wandered through the Cloysters, reading the Inscriptions till it grew duskish. I hastened to the great Gate, but was infinitely shocked to find I was locked in to the ...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][inscriptions]Manuscript: Graffito


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