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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'Mummy...read them a lecture of Froude's on the conduct of boys, at breakfast. The contrast between what Froude thought boys ought to be, and what boys are, called fo...Edith Lytton James Anthony Froude Print: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - finish Lucretius'Mary Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - greek - finish the Rebellion of Ireland'Mary Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of ClarendonHistory of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in IrelandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - greek - Irish books'Mary Shelley [unknown][books on Ireland]Print: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'Mary Shelley [unknown][possibly] A copy of the Queen's Letter to the Kin...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleySwellfoot the TyrantManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - Rebellion of Ireland'Mary Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of ClarendonHistory of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in IrelandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'Mary and Percy Shelley HoraceFirst EpistlePrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori. Antichita d'Italia'Mary Shelley Lodovico Antonio MuratoriDissertazioni sopra le Antichita Italiane, gia com...Print: Book
1850-1899'Murray (of the Hand-Books) has lately put forward a work which I have found very full of entertaining reading: a couple of well-sized volumes treating of every place o...Henry James [a guidebook to the areas round London]Print: Book
1800-1849'Murray had written to Byron on September 12 [1816] that he had carried the manuscript of the third canto of Childe Harold to [William] Gifford [his literary advisor]... ...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage Canto IIIManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'music, "Arabian Nights", and Darwin.'George Eliot and G.H. Lewes anon.Arabian Nights, ThePrint: 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'Mustered in the afternoon & afterwards went to the Club. There I read the Herald until it was time to go home to tea'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & chatted a little, then came away home'John Buckley Castieau Alain-Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & chatted a little, then came away home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum to read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum where I read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & a smoke went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical


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