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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
 
1700-1799'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly known among Christians - 'tis a Shame however not to...Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was pleased with it.'Joseph Hunter Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline & Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1700-1799'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was pleased with it.'Joseph Evans Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline & Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter. The thunder of Jack's snoring is not unknown to me; but poor fellow! yo...Thomas Carlyle Alexander CarlyleLetter (date unknown)Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I was unable to work for a fortnight through lameness... While laid by from work, I read Mr. MacKenzie's "Man of Feeling" and other tales. I thought them a little too hi...Thomas Carter Henry MackenzieMan of Feeling and other talesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was up early and round to the machine-gunners about their piano for to-night's concert ... After making all the arrangements for a practice this afternoon, carrying th...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [Times Book Club Catalogue]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I was up early and round to the machine-gunners about their piano for to-night's concert ... After making all the arrangements for a practice this afternoon, carrying th...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [Times Book Club Catalogue]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I was up in pretty good time, dressed by eight, and after reading, settled my great housekeeping accounts'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...Mr Grieve James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...Mr Gray James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...Mr Gray James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...James Hogg James Hogg'The Queen's Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I was very happy to receive "La Musique et les nations" yesterday. I read the Debussy immediately and with the greatest of pleasure.' Joseph Conrad Gérard Jean-AubryLa Musique et les nationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was very much obliged by the Scotsman you sent me to Foley Place, and the criticism of Meister contained in it - shallow and narrow enough it is true, but favourable a...Thomas Carlyle The ScotmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I was very much obliged by your copy of Doering's Jean Paul and the manuscript sent along with it; whch tho' too late for assisting my printed critical labours I perused...Thomas Carlyle JMH DoringJean Paul Richters LebenPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was very soon interrupted by a sergeant of the Royal Fusiliers, who brought me a message ... from their C.O. to ours. He stumbled over the pillow (the baggage end of m...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [Hand-written communique]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I was very sorry to hear about the death of "A Student in arms", whose book I read last holidays as you may remember. I never met anything exactly like it before, it i...Clive Staples Lewis Donald HankeyA Student in ArmsPrint: Book
'I was very well pleased with having seen this entertainment [a marksmanship contest for the ladies of the Austrian court], and I do not know but it might make as good a ...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu VirgilAeneidUnknown
1900-1945'I was writing something so I refrained from looking at "The Good Soldier" (according to my time-honoured practice) till I got a few pages out of the way.' Hence follow...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Good SoldierPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was yesterday at Belleim, the winter palace of the King [of Portugal] [...] The house is by no means fine, and did not the garden and other appurtenances atone for it,...Janet Schaw Sir William ChambersA Dissertation on Oriental GardeningPrint: Book


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