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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'Received a parcel of four books from ? The Farringdons by Ellen Thornycroft Fowler Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren Tommy & Co by Jerome K Jerome Donovan by ...William Thomas Alfred OllivantOwd BobPrint: Book
1850-1899'Received a week's Ovens & Murray Advertisers to-day. There was a very good skit in one. It was an account of "The first direct Telegram as it ought to have been".'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received four Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They contained however very little news though their telegrams are so full that the papers must be very interesting to folks Up...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received newspaper from Beechworth nothing much except that Sixpenny nobblers are now general in the township.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received the Ovens & Murray. It contained the letter I wrote a few days since. I thought it read very so so but Polly seemed to think it was not so bad & I expect she is...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received three newspapers & Punch all from Neild. The newspapers contained an account of a Performance by the Garrick Club. It appears to have been as successful as an...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received to-day six numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was nothing in any of them very interesting to anyone living outside the Ovens District & so they did...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received two copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. Glennon’s advertisement offering £25 Reward for the discovery of the letters received by Stewart, was in Saturday'...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received two papers from Joe & read in one of them a good account of the proceedings of the Garrick Club could not help wishing I had been at the performance.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received. The book. Have signed and sent off agreement with Paul. Thanks a million times for your ten pounds. There was absolutely not a penny going.[…] I hope to God th...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Recievd the "London Magazine" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the article on Byron carrys ignorance in the face of it [....John Clare [n/a]The London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Recieved a letter & present of books from Lord Radstock containing Hannah Moores "Spirit of Prayer" - Bp Wilsons "Maxims", Burnets "Life of God in the Soul of Man" - "A ...John Clare Richard WatsonAn Apology for the Bible, in a Series of LettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful attempt to reach Repulse Bay [...] by Captain Lyon from...John Clare [n/a]Literary GazettePrint: Book
1800-1849'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and flattering compliment past upon it'John Clare [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the "Magazine" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents "Sylvan Sketches" she seems to be a thorough bookmaker'John Clare Elizabeth KentSylvan Sketches or a Companion to the ParkPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Recieved a parcel from Holbeach with a letter and the Scientific Receptacle from J. Savage - they have inserted my poems and have been lavish with branding every corner ...John Clare [n/a]The Scientific ReceptaclePrint: Book
1800-1849'Recieved another parcel from Hessey [...] a present of "Aytons Essays" a young writer of great promise which was killed in the bud these essays are excelent and contain ...John Clare Richard AytonEssays and Sketches of CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recieved the 28 No of the "Everyday book" in which is inserted a poem of mine'John Clare William HoneThe Every-Day BookPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Recieved the April and May ma[ga]zine from London with a letter from Hessey and one from Vandyke [...] the magazine is very dull.'John Clare [n/a]London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical


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