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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
 
1850-189922 November 1854: 'After dusk we adjourned [...] to Ivor's rooms, where I crouched by the fire, feeling chilled and poorly, and betook myself to my needlework. Ivor re...Ivor Guest The Golden BeetlePrint: Unknown
1700-1799Anne Grant to Miss Harriet Reid, April 28 1773: 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read any book but the Bible and Night Thoughts*; even th...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 28 December 1847: I have only got Hansard to-day; I have marked the particular passages in the Coercion Bill debate, and se...Lord George Bentinck Hansard (parliamentary reports)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Sir James Graham to John Wilson Croker, 18 September 1847: 'I have read in the newspapers with great regret, but without surprise, the report of the death of Lady Foll...Sir James Graham report of death of Lady FollettPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'The cotton market will ocupy a good deal of attention [...] Ferguson and Taylor's "Manchester Monthly Trad...Lord George Bentinck Manchester Monthly Trade CircularPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have just been looking, with surprise & pleasure, at this week?s 'Woman'. It is really very good.' Arnold Bennett WomanPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin [the works listed above]Print: Book
1900-1945'. . . I do not at the moment see how I can be of advantage to a Schoolmaster's Year Book. I think fancy articles are a mistake in a Year Book. You want nothing but ser...Arnold Bennett The Literary Year BookPrint: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 16 December 1846: 'H[enry]. B[rougham]. spoke with bitterness [...] of Lord John [?Bedford] -- he said he had read his pref...Henry Brougham Bedford Letters vol 3Print: Book
1900-1945'Arrived 8.45 am, left 5.45. Left early with Mac's permission, though Bailey said he wouldn't risk it. Did 10 minutes work all through the day. One lorry arrived four tim... newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'When I first read about it I thought to myself; "I don't think that's going to affect me at all; 66 coupons! Why, I shall need half of it!" But then I began to buy thing... information on clothes rationingPrint: Unknown, could be news or pamphlets
1900-1945'"I just went down the Post an' when I come back it was as flat as this 'ere wharfside - there was just my 'ouse like-well, part of my 'ouse. My sissus were just making m... [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'[in America] on the very few occasions when Mrs Ward did consent to be interviewed, she insisted on seeing the proof and entirely re-writing what had been put into her m...Mary Augusta Ward [newspaper interviews with herself]Print: Unknown, newspaper proofs
1700-1799'I was glad to hear Mr. Remond's history from you, though the newspapers had given it to me [italics] en gros [italics].'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin New Testament
1900-1945'You mean the Monitor? I read it because I think it's better than any English papers. It doesn't mix its news and views up together, like Beaverbrook's dirty rags do.' MonitorPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of...Richard Solly BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of...Michael Solly BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of...Stephen Solly BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 10 1775 'I had indeed heard that the 15th were under orders for America, but did not dream of Captain Ourry?s accompanying them; and I examined...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Newspapers]Print: Newspaper


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