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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'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for t...Polly Castieau [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Polly then buried her [?] in the last number of the Family Herald & I smoked away at a new pipe'Polly Castieau [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pleasure that the reading of your charming sketch has ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamFamily PortraitsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its As...anon [unknown]Family Quarrel - an humble storyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I am occupied a geat deal just now in reading a new novel called "Family Secrets", it is a compound of unnatural occurrences but being embarked on it I am dommed to wade...Thomas Fremantle Sarah Stickney EllisFamily SecretsPrint: Book
1800-1849'About this period, Mr Tymms sent down for inspection the proof of his Acct. of Northamptonshire for the Family Topographer to which I added several paragraphs and correc...John Cole TymmsFamily TopographerPrint: Proof
1800-1849[Marginalia]: has pencil annotations, opposite the title page and inside front cover, relating to the history and purchase of the book "Mr Heber certifies to me, that t...Patrick GordonFamous history of the renown'd and valiant prince,...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read "Famous Modern Battles" by [ ]. Ev. Bridge.'William Thomas Andrew Hilliard AtteridgeFamous Modern BattlesPrint: Book
1700-1799'what a charming instance have you given me, good sir, of the Restoration of [your health], if I may be permitted to infer it from the noble strength and Vigor of your ve...Samuel Richardson Aaron HillFanciadManuscript: Unknown, Richardson is about to print the manuscript
1900-1945On p. 206 (last page of text) 'Read Novr 13th/19th 1903 L A W' in pencil manuscript. In addition, a bookplate on inside front cover: 'Laurence A. Waldron.' with a c...Laurence A Waldron Henry Austin DobsonFanny BurneyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Answer to prayer: [May] came in safe and early Read Fanny Burney (Court of George III)'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Constance HillFanny Burney at the Court of Queen CharlottePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Miss Burney George III illness + recovery'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Constance HillFanny Burney at the Court of Queen CharlottePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 November 1849:

'I have read the "Caxtons," I have looked at "Fanny Hervey," I think I will not write wh...		Charlotte Brontë Fanny StirlingFanny Hervey; or, the Mother's ChoicePrint: Book
1800-1849'We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I am, therefore, famishing for the want of books. I ha...Mary Russell MitfordFanny's FairingsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ernst Theodor Amadeus HoffmannFantasiestucke in Calloti ManierPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was written during a convalescence, in which the past events o...Rosamund Wallis William Henry HudsonFar Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...Thomas Jones Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I am always pleased to remember that ?Far from the mad...Leslie Stephen Thomas HardyFar from the madding crowdPrint: Book
1900-1945'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from ...Reginald Robson Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdPrint: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusFaraonPrint: Book


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