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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'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 [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I in...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][prison report]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I in...Polly Castieau [n/a][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I in...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon, in the evening went to the Club & had a good look over the English Punches & Illustrated & Papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon, then went to the Club & read the Evening Paper'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading to them from Grimm's Goblins.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading to them from Grimm's Goblins.'John Buckley Castieau Brothers Grimm[fairy tales]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mutual Love Our Mutual Flame, inspires our bliss/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge HuddersfordSong: Mutual LoveUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'My dear Caroline, I am very glad to have an opportunity of answering your agreable [sic] little Letter. You seem to be quite my own Neice [sic] in your feelings towards...Jane Austen Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St Albin Comtesse de GenlisOlympe et TheophilePrint: Book
1800-1849'My Ain Fire Side' 'O I hae seen great ones...'[transcript of text] 'from the Nithsdale and Galloway Songs'Emma Bowly Robert Hartley CromekRemains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: with histoPrint: Book
1800-1849'My Ain Fire Side' 'O, I hae seen great ones...' >From the Nithsdale and Galloway SongsBowly groupRobert Hartley Cromek [editor of vol]'My Ain Fireside' OR Remains of Nithsdale and GallUnknown
'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who wanted Johnson's opinions on his literary works]; u...Samuel Johnson William TaskerOde to the Warlike Genius of BritainManuscript: Unknown
'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who wanted Johnson's opinions on his literary works]; u...Samuel Johnson HoraceCarmen SeculareManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'My astonishment was great when, after the National Anthem, the Colonel, who was standing beside me, turned to me and said, "I hear you have the Military Cross. Is it tru...Douglas Herbert Bell Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proof of the kind it would be sufficient to create a gen...Sydney Smith George Canning[Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anony...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] and Italy than anything else; & which I so wished to h...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot NortonNew Life of Dante, An Essay with TranslationsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'My beloved hour of the day was when the [table] cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert, and read Shakspere by firelight in winter in the drawing-room. My mo...Harriet Martineau William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'My book reviews find considerable favour. The eclectic Chapman has much encouraged me by the statement that he reads no criticism which he likes better.'Frederic Chapman Arnold BennettreviewsPrint: Serial / periodical


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