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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 spend some time reading the papers, morning and evening editions, roughly about 14 hours a week, about two hours each day ... I expect I'm too tired of an evening to s... [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I spent all the morning in my office in the barn at Battalion H.Q. writing up my official War Diary, writing a card home, reading the French Paper and doing some strengt...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [French newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the ...Ralph Glasser [n/a]Who's WhoPrint: Book
1900-1945'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the ...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I spent most of yesterday in the Advocates' Library and got about half way through the catalogue.'Robert Louis Stevenson ?Robert ?Wodrow[MSS in the Advocates' Library]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'I spent the after none in my Chamber and hard Mr Rhodes read a book that was mad, as it was saied, by my lord of Esex in defence of his owne Causes'Richard Rhodes Robert Devereux, Earl of EssexApology of the Earl of Essex against those who fal...Print: Book
1800-1849'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have published it - till after a considerable time. There is...Thomas Carlyle Edward IrvingFor The Oracles Of God, Four OrationsPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I spent the day reading "Weekly Timeses" and sitting in Sheikh Muhammad's tent.' Gertrude Bell The Times [?weekly or Sunday edition]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'I spent the evening and slept at the Old Tree, a very poor inn in which I was forced to sleep in a double bedded room with a stranger. For my amusement during this journ...John Marsh Alain-Rene Le SageThe history of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the Merr...Print: Book
1700-1799'I spent the evening reading with Mama "the Imitation of Jesus Christ" until supper' Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of Jesus ChristPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I spent the morning in the Public Library and am reading some lovely books. I read all afternoon and tried to think up games for our next Xmas party. It's as well to b...Hilary Spalding [books on party games]Print: Book
1850-1899'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus est...Sir Walter Raleigh Walt Whitman[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus est...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][dramatists' works]Print: Book
1800-1849'I spent the whole afternoon reading some of Mde. de Sevigne's letters'Harriet Wynne Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1700-1799'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written; not only abounding with beautiful rural imagery, a...James Boswell Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I staid at home and read "Charles Grandison" that we have in French a charming book'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I staid in and read Byron'John Ruskin George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I stared at the sea far below, and thought of our English master declaring how clever Tennyson had been in saying of his soaring eagle 'the wrinkled sea beneath him craw...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh Alfred Tennyson'The Eagle: A Fragment'Print: Book
1900-1945'I start making star charts and revising my geographical knowledge generally with the aid of a very good atlas - the Oxford Advanced - borrowed from Bayley'Thomas Kitching [unknown]Oxford Advanced AtlasPrint: Book
1900-1945'I started doing some easy Ovid and loved it. He writes beautiful poety - [underline] when [end underline] I can understand it!'Hilary Spalding Ovid[poetry]Print: Book


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