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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'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!'Jane Bailie Welsh Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. The sixteenth and the last [italics] number. Read all...John Mitchel [n/a]United IrishmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Thank God for Shakespeare at any rate. Baron Lefroy can...John Mitchel William ShakespeareMerry Wives of WindsorPrint: Book
1800-1849'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I...John Mitchel Richard Henry DanaTwo years before the mastPrint: Book
1800-1849'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I...John Mitchel Mary SchweidlerThe Amber WitchPrint: Book
1800-1849'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, indeed, a type-reviewer - an authentic specimen-page o...John Mitchel Thomas Babington MacaulayEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and began to read Macaulay's essay on Bacon - "the grea...John Mitchel Thomas Babington MacaulayEssays [on Bacon]Print: Book
1800-1849Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June: 'Our second lieutenant instantly boarded her as officer on guard, and bro...John Mitchel [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, beginning, indeed, to feel myself at home in the "Tenedo...John Mitchel Livy[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stage (or chapter) with Bruce; then half a stage with so...John Mitchel [unknown][Abyssinia]Print: Book
1800-1849'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and ...John Mitchel Russell (ed.)[Palestine]Print: Book
1800-1849'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and ...John Mitchel Frazer (ed.)[Persia]Print: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel Dean Swift[Captain Crichton's autobiography]Print: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel William Gifford[autobiography]Print: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel Thomas Elwood[autobiography]Print: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel Homer[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel Alexandre DumasThree MousequetairesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel Alexandre DumasMarquis de LetorierePrint: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel William Harrison AinsworthWindsor CastlePrint: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel Douglas JerroldSt Giles and St JamesPrint: Book


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