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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'in the evening I went to the Club & had a look at Melbourne Punch & one or two of the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Ovens & Murray, saw that Evan Evans Louisa Wintle’s husband had purchased Taminick Station for £2,300.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home after a stroll in Bourke Street'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned home had a smoke & then went off to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, turning the Country ones over nervously for fear of finding myself pitched into for my want of courtesy to the ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics read the papers & then spent some time in searching among different periodicals for some engravings for Lane to copy, brought home...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read quietly for a time.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read some of the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'In the evening I would take one or the other of my companions [...] to the harims I knew, to meet again the sayyid's lovely wife, and the singers from Ghurfa, and ...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]KoranManuscript: Sheet, Parchment
1700-1799'In the evening I wrote to Mary Montalban and to her husband, and we read "Les Plaideurs" which made us laugh like fools'.Elizabeth Wynne and othersJean RacineLes PlaideursPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening my father brought two friends with him and Lawrence Candler. As I was reading to my children in the laundry, my father brought them all in; when I had fin...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening our dear brother Buxton dined with us, and spent the evening; and after our Reading I had to return thanks for the help granted in the day, and to pray'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the Evening paper this evening an account was given of two large fires at Sydney this morning, one of which destroyed the Prince of Wales Theatre & occasioned loss of...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening played bagatelle & read portion of "A man made of money" one of Douglas Jerrold's stories that I think appeared originally in Punch'John Buckley Castieau Douglas JerroldA man made of moneyPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening played Bezique with Polly & read Shakespeare with Harry.'John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening Polly was so deeply interested in a ghost story written by Lord Lytton & said to be the foundation of a "Strange Story" by that nobleman that she left eve...Polly Castieau Edward Bulwer Lytton[ghost story]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening read "Gil Blas"'John Buckley Castieau Alain-Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the evening read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book


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