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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
 
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845: 'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how often does it happen that the immediate public, look...Mary Russell Mitford Alphonse de LamartineJocelynPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Caspar SuicerusJoh. Caspari Suiceri...Thesaurus EcclesiasticusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando'Mary Shelley Giovanni VillaniJohannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Villani'Mary Shelley Giovanni VillaniJohannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Villani'Mary Shelley Giovanni VillaniJohannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a...Print: Book
1900-1945'To 5 Rosslyn Hill at 10 a.m. Had an hour's Greek reading with Eva + read all 1st Chapter of John's Gospel.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook John 1Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this pro...Margaret Oliphant Horatio Forbes BrownJohn Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled fromPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel t...Virginia Woolf John BaileyJohn Bailey, 1864-1931, Letters and DiariesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Isabel Taylor anon John BarleycornUnknown
1900-1945Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family? A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday. Q: Who read it? A: It was m'dad, he would read it from b... John BullPrint: Book, Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' [n/a]John BullPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I stayed at Home the whole day & read "John Bull & his island"'John Buckley Castieau Max O'RellJohn Bull and his islandPrint: Unknown
1800-1849"Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one comfort to those that it nicknames 'Humbugs' [.]"John Clare John Bull MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and...C.H. Rolph John Bull MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Copied from the John Bull Newspaper, Novr 19 1837. Speech of the Vicar, the Red Walter Farquer Hook D.D. at a m...C.M.G. [anon] John Bull NewspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & full of fun and ferocity' [goes on to speculate as to w...George Gordon Lord Byron J. G. LockhartJohn Bull's Letter to Lord ByronPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent George Bernard ShawJohn Bull's Other IslandPrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 3 July 1830: 'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every day Book and with a better opinion of him than I ex...Walter Scott John BunyanJohn Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, With Life of the...Print: Book
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1800-1849		[Written on end papers of manuscript book of Dawson's diary] 'this book was Read with much Interest by me May 1864, the Stags herein must be the Present Bell & Dragon. Fr...Francis Cain John DawsonJohn Dawson's Diary, Volume One, 1722-30, 1731-40.Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Shewing how he went farther than he intended and came sa...William CowperJohn GilpinUnknown


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