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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
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair.
[...]
1. The minutes of last [two meetings] read & approved.
2...		Victor Alexander [Unidentified acting secretary of the XII Book Club] Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club, 29 Ap...Manuscript: Notebook
1850-1899'The minutes of the first meeting were read and confirmed'Alfred Rawlings Alfred Rawlingsminutes of XII Book Club meetingManuscript: book
1800-1849[Charlotte Brontë, as Currer Bell, to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 15 June 1848:] 'I duly received Mirabeau from Mr Smith [...] When I have read the book, I wil...Charlotte Brontë John Stores SmithMirabeau: A Life HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, as Currer Bell, to her publisher W. S. Williams, 22 June 1848:

'I feel a little difficulty in telling you what I think of the "Life of Mira...		Charlotte Brontë John Stores SmithMirabeau: A Life HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Up pretty late. Breakfasted with M. de P. who told me travellers' tales. Long talk with him afterwards. He then gave me "Mireille" which I proceeded to read. ' Gertrude Bell Frédéric MistralMireille (Mirèio)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, 23-24 February 1827: 'As we were going down the stairs yesterday Lady M. said to me -- "I am reading...Lady Margaret Maria Cocks Charlotte AnleyMiriam; Or, the Power of TruthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont AlfieriMirraPrint: Book
1900-1945'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, the Mirror at odd moments and the People on Sunday m... MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945"If the foreman and checker were on good terms, then the checker could leave early. If not, he had to stay, biting his nails or reading the Mirror." [this was a repeated ... MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.)Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.)Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with ...Print: Book
1900-1945' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet until it falls asle...Katherine Mansfield William TempleMiscellaneaPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, 29 August 1831 "I have been reading Dawes’s Miscellanea Critica ^all the morning and writing some of his emendations in the margin of my Callimachus. They...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Richard DawesMiscellanea CriticaPrint: Book
1700-1799'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female, and with it I took two young ones. It was not unli...Joseph Banks Peter Simon PallasMiscellanea ZoologiaPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Walter PaterMiscellaneous EssaysPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): 'When I was a girl I was passionately fond of reading ... I went to stay with a friend in the country, who had by some means o...Phyllis Browne miscellaneous novelsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Some poems have been lately printed here by the Revd. E Holder written between the age of 17 & 20. I only ...Robert Southey Henry Evans HolderMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford, Your good and kind father has just given Nancy a copy of a little volume of poems, in which I find the verses on Maria's winning the cup at Ilsley ...William Cobbett Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on the one hand by labour and on the other by pain; for ...S.J. Pratt Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of poems which Messrs. Longman transmitted to me a few days since, and for which I am indebted to your politeness...J. Mitford Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book


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