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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 Wrongs of Woman'Mary Shelley Mary WollstonecraftMaria, or The Wrongs of WomanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Xtian Observer on War ... Began Father & Son by Goss. 9. May filled hot water bottle & brought hot water. To bed 9.30.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Christian ObserverPrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1900-1945'Read Xtian Observer on War ... Began Father & Son by Goss. 9. May filled hot water bottle & brought hot water. To bed 9.30.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Edmund GosseFather and Son: A Study in Two TemperamentsPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Read Zadig.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin VoltaireZadigi ou la destineePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Zastrozzi'.Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Percy Bysshe ShelleyZastrozziPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read [...] Galt's Life of West [...]is recorded one of the noblest instances of religious userality in a Quaker that I ever met with of any sect, the speech of John Will...Benjamin Newton Galt[Life of West] the life and studies of Benjamin We...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read [italics] The Captain's Doll [end italics] [D.H. Lawrence] again (about the 8th time I think) and like it better than ever. Odd how again, though, the woman is more...Antonia White David Herbert LawrenceCaptain's Doll, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.'George Eliot [pseud] Merritt (Mrs)[recollections of her husband]Unknown
1800-1849'Read, after a long intermission (April 27, 1797) the 2d volume of Gregory's "Essays"...'Thomas Green James GregoryPhilosophical and literary essaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read, after a long interval, with much delight, the first two Books of Caesar's "Commentaries"....'Thomas Green Julius CaesarCommentariesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Sinner! I seem to catch both, just now.'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'John Ruskin [unknown]AriadnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published in the shape of letters'.Sydney Smith Horace Walpole[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christ...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[article in the Athenaeum]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christ...George Eliot [pseud.] Charles MontalambertThe Monks of the WestPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully traced....' [Green usually gives extensive summary co...Thomas Green Sir William TempleEssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Mark)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read, please read, Francois le Champi by George Sand; it is like a dream of goodness and virtue and gentle heroism.'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandFrancois le ChampiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it...Sarah Harriet Burney John McLeodNarrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship t...Print: Book


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