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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'May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster] knowing my father's love of science had asked maste...Alfred Tennyson Pupils at Marlborough College Prize PoemsUnknown
1850-1899'May 3rd. [1866] After dinner the Upper Sixth came in, and at their petition [Tennyson] read "Guinevere," refusing however enthronement in a large arm-chair, and assertin...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1600-1699'May 6. I began seriously to read Dr Preston's sermons of faith; and that I might understand them the better, and that they might be fixed in my memory, I preached upon E...Isaac Archer John PrestonThe Breast-plate of Faith and Love. A treatise whe...Print: Book
1900-1945'May brought back from the Library Home of the Blizzard.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Douglas MawsonThe Home of the BlizzardPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'May finished Only a Governess. Pr. ¼ past 9. 1 Cor vii.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook 1 Corinthians 7Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'May finished Only a Governess. Pr. ¼ past 9. 1 Cor vii.'May Rosa Nouchette CareyOnly a GovernessPrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original, though the name of the story might have been better...Margaret Oliphant Sarah GrandSingularly DeludedPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'May,June' [ditto marks under the words '-July with Winnie and Edith'].Sarah Good Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEvangelinePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper Alfred, Lord Tennyson[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper John Keats[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper Homer[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper Pliny the Younger[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper AesopFablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'McKinley & I walked into town & went to the Yorick together. After reading the papers Duerdin & I left for home & took a stroll through Bourke Street.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meant to go to church, but couldn't find it, so had a fine lazy day instead. Read Browning.'Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barre...Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1800-1849'Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but at bottom another of the same.-'Thomas Carlyle Johann Gottfried GruberChristop Martin WielandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India'Thomas Medwin Barry Cornwall [pseud.]Dramatic Scenes, and other poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India''Thomas Medwin Thomas Medwin[journal of time in India]Manuscript: diary


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