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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'M reads the Sorcerer & Shelley writes his Romance.'Mary Godwin Veit WeberDie Teufelsbeschworung / The SorcererPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'M. Necker, the late Minister...has written a book entitled "De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses", it pleases me and I want to know the character of the man in domest...Mary Wollstonecraft Jacques NeckerDe l'Importance des opinions ReligeusesPrint: Book
1800-1849'M. reads Miss Bailey's plays'.Mary Godwin Joanna Baillie[Plays]Print: Book
1500-1599'M. Rhodes read a sarmon of the Reuel: and so went to bed'Margaret Rhodes [unknown][sermon - Revelation]Print: Book
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Albert Ruskin Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Albert Ruskin Cook Max PembertonThe Diamond ShipPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Diamond ShipPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The...Albert Ruskin Cook unknown unknown'The Man at the Gate'Print: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The...Margaret Ellen Cook unknown unknownThe Man at the GatePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The...Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The...Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the character. Energy, acuteness, tyranny, and audacity i...Thomas Babington Macaulay MonkBiography of Richard BentleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'MacMahon's address is pasted up everywhere and political pictures fill the windows.'Robert Louis Stevenson Patrice de MacMahonunknownPrint: Poster
1800-1849'Madam, I have read the paper you were kind enough to forward to me, and very much regret that I cannot avail myself of it. It is not in a style of composition which wou...Charles Dickens Miss ReynoldsunknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [....G.E. Lynch Cotton Mary Russell MitfordTragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [....G.E. Lynch Cotton Andre-Guillaume Contant-d'OrvilleLes Anecdotes GermaniquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Madam, I am really ashamed of not having answered your very obliging and interesting letter, and not hving acknowledged the receipt of the pretty poem which you have don...Lord Holland Mary Russell MitfordPoems on the Female CharacterManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is right and proper that I should apologize for the li...Felicia Hemans Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Madame de C[-] praised Miss Porter's "Scottish Chiefs", and said, it quite [italics] monted [end italics] her imagination about Scotch persons and Scotland. Had she know...Madame de [C-] Jane PorterScottish Chiefs, ThePrint: Book


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