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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'Nothing to put down these last two days unless I go back to my old practice of recording what I read, and which I rather think I left off because I read nothing and had ...Charles Greville CiceroSecond PhilippicPrint: Book
1900-1945'Notice over the bakery - "Wedding Cakes A Speciality"'Thomas Kitching [unknown][sign]Manuscript: Graffito
1800-1849'Noticed at dinner time the improper conduct of Mr Slyfield he having taken the paper and not reading aloud. I kindly requested him to read the city article and sat 1/4 o...Mr Slyfield [n/a][The Morning Chronicle?]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Charles Lamb Print: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Oscar WildeBallad of Reading GaolPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Oliver GoldsmithThe Deserted VillagePrint: Book
1900-1945'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish to read the same book a second time, as my choice is... [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish to read the same book a second time, as my choice is... [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1600-1699'November 30. I was reading, and meditating upon what I read in Mr Rogers his book of faith, viz. that there must be legall preparations before faith is wrought in the so...Isaac Archer Richard RogersCertain Sermons . . . to establish and settle all ...Print: Book
1900-1945'November brought a peculiar police-court case, which made literary history, after Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well of Loneliness", had been suppressed for impropriety. ...Vera Brittain Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1900-1945'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it throws on L?on Daudet than on its subject ? a person (C...Winifred Agnes Moore Leon DaudetClemenceauPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you know) which has the honour of appearing in "Maga" [...Margaret Oliphant David WingateMy Little WifePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the "exercises" of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers...Leslie Stephen Proceedings of the PBKPrint: Proceedings
1850-1899'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the 'exercises' of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers...Leslie Stephen Richard Watson Gilder[poem]Unknown
1800-1849'Now going to bed having completed my daily reading 12 o'clock -news today of Don Carlos quitting Spain and taking refuge in France.'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Now half Paris is wanting to take my likeness & indeed a Spanish painter is doing it all the time while I am writing this. He sits about doing me while I work or read or...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Now hating to deal with ladies when they are in an unreasonable humour I have got the goodhumoured Man of Feeling to find out the lady's mind and I take on myself the ta...Walter Scott Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now he discovered "one of Swinburne's models" - Gautier: "I have just bought is "Emaux et Camees", he told Osborne, "translated several of them, and read a good many. Sc...Arthur Symons Theophile GautierEmaux et CameesPrint: Book


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