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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'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield Robert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying on the sofa between the dining-room windows with th...Gwen Raverat Thomas Bewick Print: Book
1700-1799'. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are presumed to have been those of Captn Cooke & Capt. ...Frances Burney  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. Clerke?s ship.'Frances Burney  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Pamphlet, Unknown
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Unknown
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read...Robert Boyle Rene Descartes Print: Book
1600-1699" ... Abraham Cowley ... found that reading Spenser in his mother's parlor 'made [him] a Poet as immediately as a Child is made an Eunuch.'"Abraham Cowley Edmund Spenser Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		" ... the crypto-Jacobite virtuoso John Byrom used laudanum to treat his sister, Ellen, after noting that she had been 'disturbed' by reading Clarendon. The treatment pr...Ellen Clarendon Print: Book
1700-1799'In the even read the writings of a farm called Chillys in Mayfield, which was entailed to Mrs Virgoe's father and his heirs forever, but he cut the said entailment off a...Thomas Turner  Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Carter] read "a system of false philosophy" by Madame de Chatelet "for no other reason than because it was wrote by a lady".'Elizabeth Carter Emilie de Chatelet Print: Book
1700-1799'Sarah Harriet Burney read Ariosto with "delight", but "Here and there he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that a...Sarah Harriet Burney Ariosto Print: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery George Eliot Print: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Charlotte Bronte Print: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Edith Wharton Print: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Olive Schreiner Print: Book
1600-1699" ... in the [Royal] Society ... date of publication could override date of registration. Walter Needham made this explicit in reporting his perusal [as part of Royal So...Walter Needham Reginald de Graaf Print: Book


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