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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
 
1700-1799'Mary Delaney frequently discussed her reading of plays.'Mary Delany playsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very ...Mary Augusta Ward El Cantar de Mio Cid Print: Book
1700-1799'. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are presumed to have been those of Captn Cooke & Capt. ...Frances Burney  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. Clerke?s ship.'Frances Burney  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849[Marginalia]: 3 pages of ms notes (pencil) on binding pages in form of references giving Book, chapter /verse and a short note on content eg 'Exodus ... 14 ... bees'. The... The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and t...Print: Book
1700-1799'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.'Peggy Turner unknown sermonUnknown
1700-1799'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.'Thomas Turner unknown sermonUnknown
1700-1799'My wife read to me in the Even 4 No. of the Freeholder.'Peggy Turner The FreeholderPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Pamphlet, Unknown
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom booksPrint: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Unknown
1600-1699"... [during the 1660s] eminent Stationer Benjamin Tooke said he had seen 'several quires' of a seditious work lying visible in Benjamin Harris's shop, and could be sure ...Benjamin Tooke seditious bookPrint: unbound printed sheets
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1700-1799		Adrian Johns notes 17th-century bookseller Thomas Bennett (d. 1706)'s practice of reading "'Useful Discourses'" to his servants every Sunday.Thomas Bennett "useful Discourses"Print: Unknown
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'"Samuel Pepys books on laws and statutesPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes how the school-aged Robert Boyle was advised to read romances [incuding "'the stale Adventures [of] Amadis de Gaule'"] as remedy for a "melancholic sta...Robert Boyle romances including Amadis de GaullePrint: Book
1600-1699"What originally made [Robert] Boyle so 'passionate a Friend to Reading,' he was wont to say, 'was the accidentall Perusall of Quintus Curtius.' This ancient romance of ...Robert Boyle Quintus CurtiusPrint: Book
1600-1699"In Geneva on the Grand Tour ... [Robert] Boyle would continue to pursue 'above all the Reading of Romances,' and would become fluent in French from doing so."Robert Boyle French romancesPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes how, long after enjoying the romance of Quintus Curtius when young, "[Robert] Boyle ... found himself suffering 'violent pains' in an inn; reading an o...Robert Boyle Quintus CurtiusPrint: Book
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers transcribed sermonsManuscript: Unknown


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