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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
 
1850-1899'Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably grander in English than Greek'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'reed a Chapter of the testement, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'reed a whill of another good book, and then went to priuat medetations and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'reed of the bible, and after returned to priuat medetation and praier'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'reed to the good wiffes, as I had wont, after dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Reggie Smith, also a producer at the BBC, was married to the novelist Olivia Manning. She was to draw him with exquisite accuracy, and some bitterness, as Guy in her ser...Ralph Glasser Olivia ManningBalkan Trilogy, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Relics' 'Oh! Wherefore, Lady dost thou price, ... M.A. Browne'Bowly groupMary Ann Browne'Relics' OR Winter's WreathPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Religion was a sore trial ... Dean Farrar contributed to my suspicion of God, and my suspicion of God — "I haven't done anything; really I haven't" — gave ghastly realit...Wilfred Ruprecht Bion Frederick W. FarrarEric, or, Little by LittlePrint: Book
'Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying abed reading Trollope, "I'm afraid it's no use anyo...Sir Walter Raleigh Anthony TrollopeunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Remained at home in the evening amused myself with Reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Remember Me! By Bernard Barton Esq' ' "Remember me!" However brief / Those simple words... [transcribes text]'Mary Dugdale Bernard BartonRemember Me!Unknown
1800-1849'Remember the Past!' '"Remember the Past" Oh since Fate has bereft me/...'Carey/Maingay groupAlaric Alexander WattsRemember the PastPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Remember thee yes while there's life in this heart/...'[Thomas Moore, 'Remember Thee': first 8 lines of 12-line text. Very little punctuation in transcript. Perhaps from...Carey/Maingay groupThomas Moore'Remember Thee' [from Irish Melodies]Print: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not wanting anything, not even concerned with the future,...Antonia White Marcel Proust[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Remenber me faithfully to your wife whose translation of "Karenina" is splendid. Of the thing itself I think but little, so that her merit shines with the greater lustre...Joseph Conrad Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer's Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds see...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer?s Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds see...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPsalm of LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reported sick again as the swelling on my leg has not gone down. There is not a sound of a gun to be heard now ... We are now having a thunderstorm, the first rain for f...Stuart Chapman Guy BoothbyA Millionaire's Love StoryPrint: Book


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