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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'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and braes" "We'll meet beside the dusky glen" and "Jessey"...John Clare Robert TannahillPoems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish DialectPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and braes" "We'll meet beside the dusky glen" and "Jessey"...John Clare Robert TannahillPoems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish DialectPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read some pieces of poetry to them this evening & was very pleased however to find how interested they were & how much they seemed to enjoy them.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some Sir Joshua"John Ruskin Sir Joshua ReynoldsThe Works of Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read some stories to the youngsters, about the only good thing I did to-day.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'Mary Shelley CiceroDe RepublicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'Mary Shelley Tobias SmollettAdventures of Roderick RandomPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read South Sea Tales by Jack London.'William Thomas Jack LondonSouth Sea TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Spencer's Psychology'George Eliot [pseud] Herbert SpencerPrinciples of PsychologyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Seneca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Queene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto)'Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Quene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Cannibals living in trees. It is an amusing Book.'Sydney Smith Henry Harpur SpryModern IndiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'John Cole unknownSt Limerick's BellsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'John Cole unknownThe word we have not seenPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Edward du BoisSt. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth a...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'Mary Shelley William GodwinSt. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'Mary Shelley John DavisTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.Sydney Smith Arthur StanleyLife and Correspondence of Thomas ArnoldPrint: Book



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