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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'O boy, I'm deep in Lanfry.'Robert Louis Stevenson Jean-Pierre LanfryHistoire de Napoleon 1erPrint: Book
1700-1799'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'. ('Constantine')Gertrude Savile Nathaniel LeeConstantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works...Print: Book
1800-1849'O Thou for whom my lyre Istring/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxEdward MooreThe Lover and the FriendUnknown
1850-1899'O when we woke in London docks, the first steamer I saw go past was the "Charles", and the next the "Cygnet": I was afraid to look any more, I felt so eerie; but of cour...Robert Louis Stevenson  Manuscript: Letter, Painted (or stencilled?) on ships' sides.
1800-1849'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot now read "Vanity Fair". But the pub...Harriet Martineau William Makepeace ThackerayHeny EsmondPrint: Book
1800-1849'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot now read "Vanity Fair". But the pub...Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.'John Ruskin [n/a]The TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Observe in the same number, how Will. J. Sharman girds at your poor friend ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Will. J. Sharmanarticle in Young FolksPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Observing a new entrance gate, inscribed Jesus' Hospital [underlined], we were invited to enter the gate, and discovered that new wings had been recently added.'John Cole unknown[Inscription over entrance gate]Print: Incription on gate
1850-1899'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson, and my mother, all agitated in defence of her i...Mrs Hughes Alfred, Lord TennysonLocksley HallPrint: Book
1850-1899'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet M...Alfred Tennyson Thomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet M...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink, sometimes pale, sometimes black; part supposed to be ...Samuel Johnson BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink, sometimes pale, sometimes black; part supposed to be ...Samuel Johnson anon.Speculum humanae SalvationisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink, sometimes pale, sometimes black; part supposed to be ...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Durandi Sanctuarium Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson Giovanni Boccacio[tales from the 'Decameron']Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson Petrarch[unknown oration]Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland[unknown text - letters?- presumably addressed to ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson John Dryden[preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3]Print: Book
1600-1699'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that because God tossed and tumbled us about in this wor...Isaac Archer Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book


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