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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
 
1900-1945'I read in the "News Chronicle" articles about the work, and especially the account by an ordinary housewife of her day. Mass-Observation, it was something new, something... [n/a]News ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I read in the Castlemaine Representative last evening that an old man named Joseph Hill who had been sent from here to Castlemaine Gaol in December last, had died there ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Castlemaine RepresentativePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I read in the Edinburgh Review the Remarks there made on the Hamiltonian System of acquiring languages. I think it merits being attended to from the specimens of the Ita...Robert Sharp Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince was retiring from the armee of Conde... [the full st...Eugenia Wynne [n/a][English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I read in the evening the "Mysteries of Udolpho" which Lucy sent me'.Harriet Wynne Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read it three times, and I can't make head or tail of it. Doesn't seem nothing in it somehow.'Adolf Hitler[a speech]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Hay Athole Macdonaldelection speechUnknown
1800-1849'I read Lady Morgan's Florence Macarthy. There is originality and genius in all she writes'.Charlotte Bury Sydney, Lady MorganFlorence Macarthy: An Irish TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read less now than before the war, owing to pressure of work - of a mental nature - and consequently prefer to spend most of my leisure in exercise. Thus what I read n... unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'Mary Shelley Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SevigneLettresPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Gospel of St LukePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read mainly the papers my parents take and they are not therefore my choice: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail. The former I find amusing though rather like a novelette but I p... Daily MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read mainly the papers my parents take and they are not therefore my choice: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail. The former I find amusing though rather like a novelette but I p... Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I read Mde. de Sevigne until I was quite tired'.Harriet Wynne Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.Charlotte Bury Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.Charlotte Bury Metastasio [pseud.] Print: Book
1900-1945'I read more as I spend more time at home. Also I read fewer political works and more fiction.' unknown[light books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read more-not so much of the paper as light books and escapist stuff. I listen to the radio about the same.' unknown[light books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography to escape the present day. With the loss of "US" cl... unknown[light reading]Print: Book


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