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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
 
1700-1799'...in the even read part of Sherlock upon death.' Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1800-1849'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, bu...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jane AustenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, bu...William Wordsworth Jane AustenunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'...Mother reads all the new French novels and Rudyard Kipling ... and though she says they are so horrible she can hardly get through them, she will go on reading th...Edith Lytton French novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'...Mother reads all the new French novels and Rudyard Kipling ... and though she says they are so horrible she can hardly get through them, she will go on reading th...Edith Lytton Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1850-1899'...my father read aloud. He was a beautiful reader and I enjoyed much of what he read, but I have to confess that I got terribly bored by his own long narrative poems......Emily Lytton Robert Lytton Print: Book
1900-1945'...Naturally the Insurance Companies are feeling a bit sick and when the report is delved into, this is hardly to be wondered at. I have only read a wee bit of the repor... [Report into Insurance Companies' finances]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, under the title of "Eyes and No Eyes", which some of my...John Ruskin John AikinEvenings at homePrint: Book
1700-1799'...read part of Drelincourt on death and in the even one of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'...read part of Drelincourt on death and in the even one of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner Charles DrelincourtThe Christian's defence against the fears of deathPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Robert OrmeHistory of HindustanPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Rene Aubert VertotRevolutions of Portugal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Rene Aubert VertotHistory of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned b...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Isaac Barrow[Select Sermons]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Jacques Benigne BossuetOraisons FunebresPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Jean Baptiste Massillon'Petite Careme'Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Edmund [??] Barrow[??] Speech on conciliation with the American colo...Print: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Archibald AlisonEssays on the Nature and Principles of TastePrint: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Joshua ReynoldsLecturesPrint: Book


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