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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'I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Touchstone has a Cartoon'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TouchstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, then returned home had some more gin & water & went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers then took a stroll & came home.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Mechanics, nothing of much importance or interest in the Evening Herald'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, &c., where was very good reading.'Samuel Pepys Adam OleariusThe voyages and travels of the ambassadors from th...Print: Book
1900-1945'I went to town in the evening Jack in school brought budget home. I read a little after supper. Mother feeling very comfortable.'Anne Jenkins  Unknown
1800-1849'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived. I read Sir Jonah Barrington in the Monthly Review.'William Richard Grahame n/aThe Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived...'William Richard Grahame n/a['The English Papers']Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I went up the line to the 168 batteries and had a most excellent lunch with Hastings and Poole at B battery in a dug-out which the former has built in a trench there. Th...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson L. M. Hastings'Regent Street'Print: Serial / periodical, Page proofs
1850-1899'I went up to the Musee this morning and read a Persian life of Hafez with a Latin crib. I think I got at the meaning of it with the help of a Persian dictionary, but a L...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[Biography of Hafiz]Print: Book
1600-1699'I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new "Concordance" that I have bought with Newmans, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine altogethe...Samuel Pepys [Samuel] [Newman]A concordance to the Holy ScripturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I went yesterday to Montreux and then changed and went in a funny funicular to a place called Gstaadt where we arrived at 7.30. I read Byron all the time.'Harold Nicolson George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[...].The subject in itself is certainly a very diffi...Joseph Conrad Theodore James Gordon GardinerThe ReconnaissancePrint: Book
1700-1799'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. From 7 to 8 drew part of a landscape, wrote my diary. 8 to 9. Read a little in my Encyclopedia ... 2 to 5 at...Joseph Hunter [n/a]EncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. [...9-12 at the warehouse] 12 to 1 came to my dinner, read part of the "Iris". Mr H. Hall dined with us.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I will not forget Blackwood's Magazine, for though you will not approve much you will certainly be entertained by some Things.'George Crabbe [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the firs...George Crabbe Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the firs...John Crabbe Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Alphonse DaudetTartarin sur les AlpesPrint: Book


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