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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 a chapter or two of Zimmermann on Solitude, and with that & ordinary business employed myself till four o clock.'John Buckley Castieau Johann Georg ZimmermannSolitudePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on "A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge" ["The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler"] the rest are moderates among the m...John Clare unknownThe Struggles of a Senior WranglerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read a couple of ballads to Eve.'William Soutar [unknown][ballads]Unknown
1850-1899'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.'John Ruskin Charles Dickens[ghost story]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a french translation of Lucien [sic]'Mary Shelley Lucian[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a good deal during the day, and worked a Couple of hours at French.'Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a great deal of the War news & was truly disgusted at the horrible things that have been enacted'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Jewish chronicles]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read a letter of interest from G Danes Esq.'John Cole G DanesletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.'John Ruskin Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'John Ruskin Sir Archibald AlisonHistory of EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'John Ruskin [unknown][chemistry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read a little book of verse entitled "Cage Without Grievance", by a "modern Scot", W.S. Graham. Montgomerie's gift; and inscribed on it by him is Marston's line: "I fear...William Soutar W.S. GrahamCage Without GrievancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little in Arist. "Polit" before I went to bed.'William Windham Aristotle[Politics?] or Ethics and PoliticsPrint: Book
1700-1799'read a little in Barclay'Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little in the Greek grammar'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][Greek Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little in Thucydides.'William Windham Thucydides[History of Peloponessian War?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book


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