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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
 
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery Godey's Lady's BookPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery [novels for adults]Print: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery History of the WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery [Christian books and missionary tracts]Print: Book, religious tracts
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Alexander Macneill BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Alexander Macneill [newspaper from Charlottetown]Print: Newspaper, Daily
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due...Lucy Maud Montgomery Wide Awake magazine - serialised storyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Maud began [her diary] right after she had read a book called "A Bad Boy's Diry" [sic], a story a teacher had left behind at the house after boarding there for a year. I...Lucy Maud Montgomery A Bad Boy's DiryPrint: Book
1700-1799'In reading "The Gazette" for the 22nd instant I find the King of Prussia, with about 20,000, has beat the combined forces of the empire and France, which were about 60,0...Thomas Turner The London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'In the day read part of several new almanacs which came down today, and I doubt but few will be sold by reason of the additional duty of one penny on the sheets, and two...Thomas Turner [almanacs]Print: Broadsheet, Pamphlet, almanac
1600-1699"In late 1686 [Edmond] Halley ... sent [John] Wallis the original Royal Society minutes -- 'I have no Copy of the Inclosed minutes, which are as they were read before the...Royal Society Society minutesManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'In the day read part of some "Monitors" lent me by Mr Calverley, but which paper the author endeavours to point out the only way to restore this nation to its former str...Thomas Turner The Monitor; or the British FreeholderPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea...William Darwin [works in Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive Christianity propounded or an Essay To revive the A...Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Mildred was a fanatical teetotaller; and took in, believe it or not, a periodical called "The Journal of Inebriety"'.Mildred Massingberd The Journal of InebrietyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'We dined on the remains of Wednesday and yesterday's dinners with the addition of a cheap kind of soup, the receipt for making of which I took out of "The Universal Maga...Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Bible, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of "The London Magazine" for February.'Thomas Turner The London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'This day I saw in the "Lewes Journal", which was an extract from "The Gazette", that our troops under the command of the Duke of Marlborough had landed at St Malo in the...Thomas Turner Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes JournalPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: 'You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The re...Henry James magazines and newspapersPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical


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