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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'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown]Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humb...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart John Hookham FrereQuarterly Review [burlesque poetry]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Pray, if you love laughing, read "the [italics] Entail [end italics] or the Lairds of Grippy". It is admirable for that purpose, tho' far more broadly Scotch than I can ...Louisa, Lady Stuart John GaltEntail, The, or The Lairds Of GrippyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one does not forget. I saw some time ago a study of Galswor...Joseph Conrad Helen Thomas Follett (and Wilson Follett)Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and EstimatesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Prayer meeting 9 am. Litany & Sermon 10 am. Child of Boranzina died at 1 pm. Read "A God of Deliverance" by Saunders. It filled my eyes with tears & humbled me gre...Thomas Buchanan Reginald Westgate Alexander R. SaundersA God of DeliverancesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Prayers were read to the Catholic prisoners'anon prayersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Prelude MS W contains a fair copy of a verse translation of the tale of the travellers and the angel from Gower's Confessio Amantis ii 291-364 in D[orothy] W[ordsworth]'...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownTale Imitated from GowerUnknown
1800-1849'Prelude MS W [Dove Cottage MS 38)] contains a transcription of Marvell's Horatian Ode dating from late 1802.'William Wordsworth Andrew MarvellHoratian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, ...Unknown
1900-1945'President Wilson made a really magnificent speech, reported in yesterday's Times. War now only awaits Congress assent—a foregone conclusion. He calls for the mobi...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly concealed in what they saw. Enough filtered through.'Ralph Glasser [n/a][newspaper reports on Russia]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Pretty dud. No patrols ... Read in evening. Belgian Hanriot over.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849'Previous to leaving my chamber, I read several Chapters of St. Mark.'William Upcott n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorc...Princess Charlotte George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte [memoirs and history]Print: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte Anne Plumptre[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Printed diary[.] The ladies new and polite pocket memorandum-book, for ... 1765, completed in manuscript and containing details of expenditure on clothes and social enga...Alain-Rene LeSageGil Blas de Santillane
1600-1699'priuat Readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'priuatt praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Probably the last letter ... [Anthony Trollope] wrote, before his fatal stroke in 1882, was to express pleasure on learning that Cardinal Newman read his novels.'Cardinal John Henry Newman Anthony TrollopeunknownPrint: Book


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