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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
 
1600-1699'I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent cuts, with great content.'Samuel Pepys J BlaeuTheatrum civitatum... Italie [OR] Ubrium praecipua...Print: Book
1600-1699'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent cuts, with great content.'Samuel Pepys Antonius SanderusFlandria IllustrataPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to my office and spent an hour or two reading Rushworth; and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling of offices, wherein Mr Coventry is so much concerne...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Statute book]Print: Book
1900-1945'I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.' [The Well of Loneliness]Arnold Bennett Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1800-1849'I told him of my having now read every play of Euripides; & he seemed very much surprised [...] and observed, that very few men had done as much'.Elizabeth Barrett Euripides[all plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.'James Boswell John Gay[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I told him, that his "Rasselas" had often made me unhappy; for it represented the misery of human life so well, and so convincingly to a thinking mind, that if at any ti...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonHistory of Rasselas, Prince of AbissiniaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I told him, that I had been present the day before when Mrs. Montagu, the literary lady, sat to Miss Reynolds for her picture ; and that she said, "she had bound up Mr. ...Elizabeth Montagu Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'.Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord Byron[Memoirs]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I told no one my state until about the time to get up. I then dressed. I felt bound to have my husband, children, my dear sister Elizabeth Gurney, Susan Pitchford as suc...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I told the Doctor, my Writings might amuse, but his made the World the wiser and the better, as I had had the Pleasure of reading them.'Laetitia Pilkington Stephen Hales[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I took "Varieties & c" to the Library. I brought the 2nd Volume of the "Minstrel or Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons in ye 15 Century". ... I think it one of the Pret...Joseph Hunter AnonThe Minstrel; or Anecdotes of Distinguished Person...Print: Book
1800-1849'I took a great pleasure in the "Antiquary", till I learnt who was the author. It is universally believed that it was written by a man of the name of Greenfield, once a p...Mrs [-] Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I took a stroll as far as the Mechanics read the papers came home had some toddy & a bath & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I took Bail]ly's "histoire d'Astronomie", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to write with great eloquence & perspicuity; but I have ...Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain BaillyHistoire de l'astronomie modernePrint: Book
1800-1849'I took from my pocket the volume of "Love and Madness" which I had amused myself with a few evenings since- ...I read with great pleasure the whole of the History of Poo...William Upcott James HackmanLove and MadnessPrint: Book
1600-1699'I took leave of him, and directly by water home; and there to read the Life of Mr Hooker, which pleases me as much as anything I have read in a great while'Samuel Pepys Isaak WaltonLife of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's W...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in Lubbock's "hundred". It took time, of course: it wa...Thomas A. Jackson George GroteHistory of GreecePrint: Book


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