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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'My talk on "The Development of Malayan Surveys" is read by Sworder. It goes very well. Many people come and congratulate me on it.'Thomas KitchingThe Development of Malayan SurveysManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'My time was occupied till 6 with the Bible.'William Upcott n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'My two articles in your work has [sic] been very much praised in this country. Prof. Wilson said in a very large public company that "The Cameronian's Tale" was "not onl...John Wilson James Hogg'Cameronian Preacher's Tale, The'Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My uncle and some others were subscribers to The Weekly Dispatch, each of the subscribers agreeing as to the time and days they were to have the paper read.'villagers of South Mimms [n/a]The Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was spoilt. Acting upon this idea, he gave up certain bo...brothers of Elizabeth missing Sewell, including Henry, William and JamesJoseph GlanvillPhilosophical Considerations touching Witches and ...Print: Book
1800-1849'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was spoilt. Acting upon this idea, he gave up certain bo...Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters, including Eleanor [n/a]Arabian Nights Entertainments, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'My warm thanks for the inscribed copy of "Bolshevik Persecution" you have been kind enough to send me. I have read with interest this most remarkably able account of a s...Joseph Conrad Francis McCullaghThe Bolshevik Persecution of ChristianityPrint: Book
1900-1945'My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the last was in '12 or early '13 when the copy disappeared ...Joseph Conrad Edmund GosseFather and Son:A Study of Two TemperamentsPrint: Book
1850-1899'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me much good yesterday.'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verse]Unknown
1600-1699'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as any...Samuel Pepys Guillaume de Salluste du BartasDivine weekes and workesPrint: Book
1600-1699'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as any...Elizabeth Pepys Guillaume de Salluste du BartasDivine weekes and workesPrint: Book
1700-1799'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.'Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'My wife read the 20th and 21st numbers of "The Guardian" to me, which I think extremely good, the first of which shows how indispensable a duty forgiveness is and the la...Peggy Turner The GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'My wife read to me in the Even 4 No. of the Freeholder.'Peggy Turner The FreeholderPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books and Timber Rule.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][Arithmetic books]Print: Book
1800-1849'My [Harriet Martineau's] first real interest in [Thackeray] arose from reading M. A. Titmarsh in Ireland, during my Tynemouth illness.'Harriet Martineau William Makepeace ThackerayThe Irish Sketch-Book by M. A. TitmarshPrint: Book
1800-1849'My [Harriet Martineau's] pleasure in [R. Monckton Milnes's poems] was greatest when I read them in my Tynemouth solitude. My copy is marked all over with hieroglyhics i...Harriet Martineau R. Monckton MilnespoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'My [underlined] vast [end underlining] dear Sister! O why, instead of 5, not give us [underlined ten, twenty [end underlining], of such dear delicious people? - I have ...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances BurneyCamilla; or, a Picture of YouthPrint: Book
1600-1699'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lately what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books on timber measuring and tides]Print: Book
1800-1849'Nature and Nature's Laws lay hidin night/...'Carey/Maingay groupAlexander PopeEpitaph XI:Intended for Sir Isaac NewtonPrint: UnknownUnknown


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