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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'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Genesis)Print: Book
1900-1945'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][German poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again ...George Eliot [pseud] possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz[if this Gotz, then poetry]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again ...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDer BurgergeneralPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; but I think I have done with reviewing'.Sydney Smith M. Guizot'Washington: par M. Guizot'Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][lives of the Fathers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of Christ]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of St Paul]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][studies on the Apostles]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeinepoemsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Helps's Realmah yesterday and the day before. [...] His essays are old-womanish. I have to "set a paper" on that book and am quite unprepared to ask a single ques...Sir Walter Raleigh Arthur HelpsRealmahPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read her [Miss Murray] the legend of Steenie Steenson the other night, and we agreed it was in the author's very best manner. I felt disappointed, though, at Wandering...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottWandering Willie's TalePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[letters to George Eliot]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I read his own [Byron's] memoirs before Murray burnt them.'Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon, Lord Byron[Memoirs]Unknown
1800-1849'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about ...Lady Caroline Lamb unknownShadows in the WaterPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about ...Lady Caroline Lamb unknown[chinese story]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read in Bourchette's "British Provinces Now" in North America of the meteorlogical state of the two Canadas in the year 1820, monthly and yearly.'William Richard Grahame Joseph BouchetteThe British Dominions in North AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read in Stafford's library the wonderful news of the allies entering into Paris'.Charlotte Bury [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I read in the "Gibraltar Chronicle" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a horrid tyrant must Bonaparte be if he had anything to d...Thomas Fremantle [n/a]Gibraltar ChroniclePrint: Newspaper


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