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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
1900-1945		'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...Edwin Muir Victor HugoNotre Dame de ParisPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...Edwin Muir Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...Edwin Muir Thomas CarlyleFrench RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six volumes. I wanted something to read. I had no one to ...John B. Gough Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six volumes. I wanted something to read. I had no one to ...John B. Gough Wiley and Putnam (eds)Library of Choice ReadingPrint: Book
1600-1699'I went about tell supper time and reed of the Testement'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'I went about the howse, and then reed and wrought a whill before diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not..."Old" Gleig George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not..."Old" Gleig Review of "Lothair"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I went down to see Peter & stayed a good while until breakfast then read 2 Sermons from C Age & Peter came up here.'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]Christian AgePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort from it and made it a matter of prayer and the Lord ena...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I went in & read a good bit from the news-papers then Bob his Wife & baby came in & we stayed chatting for a good while.'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Newspaper
1600-1699'I went into old William Hasleden's in Ashton; his wife was sicke and I read in the Practice of Pietie, and as I was reading she gave up the ghost.'Roger Lowe Lewis BaylyThe Practice of PietyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I went into the grey monastic quad of the Bodleian, the Old School quad, and read the legend in gold above each doorway, Scola Mathematica, Schola Physica - the sovereig...Ralph Glasser [n/a][inscriptions at the Bodleian library]Manuscript: Graffito
1850-1899'I went into town & read some of the papers at the Club, came home & soon went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went into town this morning & read the Argus at the Yorick Club'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have sadly reduced my estimation of Miss Austen. They a...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have sadly reduced my estimation of Miss Austen. They a...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1600-1699'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse about the River of Thames the reason of its being choke...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Discourse on the River Thames]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed from the singularity of the system, the many errone...Anna Larpent Lord MonboddoOf the origin and progress of languagePrint: Book


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