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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'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithCitizen of the World, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "White Fang" by Jack London."William Thomas Jack LondonWhite FangPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Proverbs)Print: Book
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Mary Shelley Charles MaturinWomen, ou Pour et ContrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Mary Shelley Thomas MooreFudge Family in Paris, The. Edited by Thomas Brown...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronBeppo: a Venetian storyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'Mary Shelley CiceroDe RepublicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'Mary Shelley Robert SoutheyAmadis of GaulPrint: Book
1800-1849'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'Mary Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of Population, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'Mary Shelley William GodwinOf Poulation... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read & idled during the afternoon till Telford made his appearance'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read & smoked till about half past ten o clock, then went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read & smoked till about half past ten then went to bed & went sulkily to sleep feeling very miserable & dissatisfied with myself & the world in general'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read & wrote till bed time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[essay on Dwarfs and Giants]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read 'Jane Eyre', it is an uncommon book. I don't know if I like or dislike it. I take the opposite side to the person I'm talking with always in order to hear some conv...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they began as early as Janry or February - They are a discov...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Scenes from Clerical LifePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read "Tales of Two People".'John Frederick William Dunn John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Book


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