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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
 
1800-1849John Playfair to Mary Berry, from Cambridge, 28 September 1804: 'In going into a great library, it often occurs to me to take up some remarkable book, open it by chan...John Playfair Theatrum CometicumPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 29 August 1807: 'In the evening read a good deal of the last Scotch Review [...] What they say of Mr. Hope [author of "Household Furniture and Intern...Mary Berry The Scotch ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 17 May 1808: 'Read in the "Times" the confirmation of the wreck and positive loss of Lord Royston."Mary Berry The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in Lady Douglas's dressing-room, reading old letters to h...Mary Berry Letters to Lady GreenwichManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Eliza talks of having read in a Newspaper that all the 1st Lieut:s of the Frigates whose Captains were to be sent into Line-of-Battle ships, were to be promoted to the r...Eliza de Feuillide [newspaper reports]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standing at the head of a juvenile class, who read the Shor...James Hogg Shorter CatechismPrint: Book
1700-1799'Next year my parents took me home during the winter quarter, and put me to school with a lad named Ker, who was teaching the children of a neighbouring farmer. Here I ad...James Hogg BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799In letter to Mary Berry and family of July 10 1790, Horace Walpole transcribes two passages from the Times of 8 July, concerning political developments in Italy.Horace Walpole The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I do hope you will be staggered about a longer journey [in Italy] for some time. But two days ago I saw a new paragraph of T...Horace Walpole newspaper report on political developments in Ital...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 16 October 1790, on concerns for her and her family's safety on return from travels in Europe: 'I saw in yesterday's newspaper that two hoys...Horace Walpole newspaper report of shipwreckPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 11 March 1791: 'I saw in today's newspaper, that the wife of the Margrave of Anspach is dead.'Horace Walpole newspaper report of death of wife of Margrave of A...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 20 July 1791: 'I inclose the best printed account, I have seen, of the riots at Birmingham from yesterday's paper.'Horace Walpole newspaper reports of Birmingham riotsPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 14 November 1793: 'I was grieved this morning to read in the papers that poor Jardin and his family have been taken by a French privateer, a...Horace Walpole NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 24 September 1794, 'near one [pm]': 'The Churchills are here in the room while I write [...] just as I was going to begin my letter, the new...Horace Walpole and Mr Churchill newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 27 September 1794: 'I was diverted a few days ago by a paragraph in the "True Briton", which, supposing that the Prince [of Wales] is to res...Horace Walpole The True BritonPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Mary Berry to Horace Walpole, 28 September 1794, regarding remark in the newspapers that the move of the Prince of Wales to Hampton Court would ensure continued social di...Mary Berry The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849"My beloved time of day was when the cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert,".."and again at a subsequent time when I took to newspaper reading very heartily"...Harriet Martineau The Globe (Newspaper)Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 27 November 1795, 'half after noon': 'Mr. Coxe, whom I could not dismiss, has sat reading to me till this instant, till I can scarce save th...Mr Coxe Life of Robert WalpoleUnknown
1800-1849'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository, in which I made my first appearance in print, a youth, named Thomas Noon Talfourd, was about th...Harriet Martineau The Monthly RepositoryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813: 'Upon reading a few days ago in the papers an account of the Queen of Naples' magnificent reception at the Ottoman court, it...Uvedale Price newspapersPrint: Newspaper


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