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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 just been gratified (no matter how or by whom) with a sight of some newspapers, which announce, among other things, a signal defeat of the enemy in the Punjab, at...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The Doctor has sent into my cabin a "Daily News", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its contents - political]John Mitchel [n/a]Daily NewsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The enemy thinks I am dead. In a parliamentary report in one of the papers, I read that the Home Secretary, replying to some inquiries about me on the 3rd of April, spok...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-convict associations within that time.'John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'A ship has arrived from England, but does not carry our destiny. Two weekly newspapers. News from Europe up to the 11th August. [describes political news in great detail...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Eugenia and myself were much interested in reading the trial of Governor Wale who I recollect seeing at Florence - he is condemned to be hanged for flogging a man to dea...Betsey and Eugenia Wynne [unknown][trial of Governor Wale]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Spent a very agreeable day at home; had a delightful lesson of Cramer; wrote a long letter to Angelo, and amused myself in reading the "History of the Church". Was parti...Harriet Wynne [possibly] Eusebius[possibly] The History of the Church from Christ t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Spent most of the day reading the "Paradise Lost"; I was quite delighted with it'.Harriet Wynne John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'I began to work myself a Chemisette - read "Frere Paschal" and laughed most violently as well as Eugenia'..Harriet Wynne Paschal - or perhaps this is the title of a workFrere Paschal - or perhaps Paschal is the authorPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was so ennuyed at my blindness, that one evening I made the Chaplain read me four Sermons, which alleviated my suffering for a time'.Thomas Fremantle [unknown]SermonsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I spent the whole afternoon reading some of Mde. de Sevigne's letters'Harriet Wynne Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Mde. de Sevigne until I was quite tired'.Harriet Wynne Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed reading the bible' [according to Harriet Wynne]Justina Wynne [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's wor...Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am occupied a geat deal just now in reading a new novel called "Family Secrets", it is a compound of unnatural occurrences but being embarked on it I am dommed to wade...Thomas Fremantle Sarah Stickney EllisFamily SecretsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read in the evening the "Mysteries of Udolpho" which Lucy sent me'.Harriet Wynne Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1800-1849'It being Sunday, we read prayers from a Bible and a Prayer Book that were picked up on the field at Bhoodkhak. The service was scarcely finished when a clannish row comm...Florentia Sale Bible and Prayer BookPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read a French novel, "Matilde", which interested me much and is extremely well written - by Mde Cottin'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Fremantle Sophie CottinMathildePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a very good Novel - Some of the characters such as the D...Eugenia Wynne Thomas Skinner SurrA Winter in London, or Sketches of FashionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read in the "Gibraltar Chronicle" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a horrid tyrant must Bonaparte be if he had anything to d...Thomas Fremantle [n/a]Gibraltar ChroniclePrint: Newspaper


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