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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
 
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a while, reed, went about'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown]Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humb...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][description of the Court of Haiti]Print: Book
1600-1699'But all this while, altho' now about Thirteen Years Old, I could not read; then thinking of the vast usefulness of reading, I bought me a Primer, and got now one, then a...Thomas Tryon [unknown][reading primer]Print: Book
1600-1699'[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I was then engaged in a laborious trade and not allow...Thomas Tryon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad taking their Pleasure. I was then upon Astrolgy [sic],...Thomas Tryon [unknown][books on astrology]Print: Book
1600-1699'But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.'Thomas Tryon [unknown][books]Print: Book
1600-1699'the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment'Thomas Tryon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Holroyd [unknown][unknown - French? -text featuring travels in Amer...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][unknown - French? -text featuring travels in amer...Print: Unknown
1500-1599'praied with Mr Rhodes, hard one read, and then went to priuat praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown]Memoires de l'Europe sous NapoleonPrint: Book
1500-1599'then I reed a hard readinge a whill'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in another obituary notice, in reading his briefs aloud to h...Anne Romilly [unknown][legal briefs]Unknown
1800-1849'I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first arise on coming to this country. I will try if I can g...Anne Romilly [unknown][letter to Madame de Stael]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Samuel Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Anne Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read to the youngsters in the evening'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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