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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
 
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison libra...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles Reade[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mustered & then lazily read The Cloister & the Hearth by Read until Polly came home to tea'John Buckley Castieau Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book
1850-1899'Came home to tea & spent the evening reading "The Cloister & Hearth".'John Buckley Castieau Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue fro...Mary Pollard Charles ReadeChristie JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue fro...T.C. Elliott Charles ReadeCloister and the Hearth, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue fro...Charles Evans Charles ReadeHard CashPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue fro...Francis Pollard Charles Reade[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert ...Virginia Woolf Charles RickettsSelf-Portrait, Taken from the Letters & Journals o...Print: Book
1800-1849Continue the perusal of Rollins Ancient History- this work reflects great light upon the sacred volume.I.G. Charles RollinAncient History of the EgyptiansPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Afternoon reading Rollin's HistoryAdam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Afternoon reading Rollin, wherein instruction may be learned. Indulge not in ease. It enfeebles the body and ,although one could afford luxury, it should not be indulged...Adam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Afternoon reading Rollin's history of Antiochus Epiphanus, who persecuted the Jews.Adam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Spent the evening reading Paulus Emillius's Campaign in Macedonia and the Overthrow of Perseus, the last king thereof.Adam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849At even reading from Rollin the defeat of the Romans under Crassus, 54 BC, the history of Hieron, the good king of Syracuse and the siege of Suracuse by the Romans under ...Adam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read beyond the first chapter of St John. Therefore he later...Thomas Wood Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford Charles RollinAncient historyPrint: Book
1800-1849'At home I acquired increased facilities for reading, by means of a small book-club, consisting of my landlord and a few of his friends. Of this I became a member; and ...Charles RollinThe Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagians,...Print: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons, Sherlock on Death, Watts' world to come, Rollin's "...John Cole Charles RollinThe ancient history of the EgyptiansPrint: Book


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