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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
 
1800-1849'... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use... I bought books, and read as much as possible, and ...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][various titles]Print: Book
1850-1899'... but I suppressed it at once and kept on at Wodrow's Analecta (a Covenanting book) and made my notes as best I could.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert WodrowAnalectaPrint: Book
1700-1799'... C[oleridge]was reading Plato during the mid-1790s ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'... doubly read Cristowell by Blackmore.'Robert Louis Stevenson Richard Doddridge BlackmoreCristowellPrint: Book
1850-1899'... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our master Balzac]Robert Louis Stevenson Honore de BalzacContes DrolatiquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'... frightfully dull ... During the afternoon I went out to the after superstructure for a time & then came down to the Gun Room & read.'Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1850-1899'... he devotes a whole serious and excellent essay to an exploration of the fame of Silas Hocking, who wrote novels calculated to please "the taste of the Methodist mill...Arnold Bennett Silas HockingunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed through her household in the 1890s: "The best I had in th...George MeredithNovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os...Samuel Bamford Lindley MurrayMurray's GrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os...Samuel Bamford Samuel JohnsonLives of the poetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os...Samuel Bamford James MacphersonOssianPrint: Book
1850-1899'... I ask you particularly to thank Mr Bunner ... for his notice, which was of that friendly, headlong sort that really pleases an author like what the French call a "sh...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Cuyler Bunner[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]European MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]Black DwarfPrint: Newspaper, Pamphlet
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a][daily newspapers]Print: Newspaper


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