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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
 
1900-1945'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and...C.H. Rolph RefereePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and...C.H. Rolph John Bull MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesWashington SquarePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Ivan TurgenievFumée Print: Book
1850-1899'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt[article on Meyerbeer]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie WahlverwandtschaftenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'In the morning I praied, hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present till my father's death, or at least very little, yet I...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799'In the morning read part of a book entitled "A Defence of Plurality of Church Benefices", but I cannot be persuaded by his reasons that it is always beneficial to promot...Thomas Turner Henry WhartonA defence of pluralities, or, holding two benefice...Print: Book
1850-1899'In the morning to Santa Maria where we looked at the Spanish Chapel with Ruskin.[...] In the afternoon poked about in the back streets behind the Duomo which are all fu...Gertrude Bell John Ruskin?Mornings in FlorencePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the morning to Santa Maria where we looked at the Spanish Chapel with Ruskin.[...] In the afternoon poked about in the back streets behind the Duomo which are all fu...Gertrude Bell Dante Alighieri?La Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1500-1599'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I brake my fast: soon after that I hard som chapters of the bible read'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I Reed of the bible, and then wrought tell 8: a clock'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1900-1945'In the mornings in bed I am going over "Sense and Sensibility" again — which I had nearly forgotten. Do you remember Mrs Jennings and Marianne Dashwood and the rest?'Clive Staples Lewis Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the newspapers, which my sister sent out to me, I had read about the growing movement for women's suffrage.'Zoe Procter [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'In the November before, he had said to himself as he sat reading history, "I am 46. On the decline. why fill my head with knowledge?"'Arnold Bennett [history]Unknown
1800-1849'In the old solitary years, a long time ago, by the shores of Canadian rapids, on the edge of West Indian swamps, his Virgil had been an inestimable solace to him...The b...Philip Gosse Virgil[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the papers this morning there was a melancholy account of the suicide of a man named Lennon'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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