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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
 
1800-1849'In this month read Poems by one of the authors and Poems for youth. By a family circle.'John Cole unknown[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons....James and Mary LackingtonThomas SeckerLectures on the Catechism of the Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons....James and Mary LackingtonWilliam GilpinLectures on the Catechism of the Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons....James and Mary LackingtonThomas WilsonSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons....James and Mary LackingtonWilliam GilpinSermons preached to a country congregationPrint: Book
1850-1899'In this way he [Mr Bosanquet] has seen some of your letters, & read the Atlantic &c, & especially begged me for a letter of introduction to you'Charles Bosanquet [n/a]Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to rea...Thomas Carter Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to rea...Thomas Carter [unknown]History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'In this weeks paper Dr M. advertises that he proposes to deliver 12 lectures on metal and metalurgy ...the subscription for which is one guinea.'Joseph Hunter [n/a][The Sheffield Iris]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1700-1799'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those papers, which have been since transferred to me. Sir ...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[papers left at his death]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those papers, which have been since transferred to me. Sir ...James Boswell John HawkinsLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's affair with the actress Frances Eleanor Ternan, which lasted many yea...Virginia Woolf Thomas WrightLife of Charles DickensPrint: Book
1800-1849'In truth I have read nothing these three months but "Strathallan," which I heard much of when it came out, but feel disappointed in now. The fact is that the time is pa...Eleanor Anne Porden unknownStrathallanPrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons John WebsterThe Duchess of MalfiPrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero WorshipPrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons William Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'In years away from this when I am quite forgotten, maybe you will turn up some of these old letters & feel a little like saying "Ronsard m'a celebree Du temps que j'et...Ford Madox Ford Pierre de RonsardSonnets pour HelenePrint: Book
1900-1945'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five years? rights in The Ring and the Book. It is just as w...Arnold Bennett 'Literary Notes and News'Print: Serial / periodical


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