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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'Reporter. On May 12 I slept till ten. From ten to eleven I read the paper with interest until I came to a half column of news giving the time schedule of the Queen's dre... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1600-1699'Rereading, some twenty years later, correspondence from the 1650s collected at Swarthmore Hall, [George] Fox crossed out passages he now deemed inappropriate ...'George Fox Quaker correspondenceManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Rest and sleep upstairs[.] Read the Queen's Tragedy by Benson.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Robert Hugh BensonThe Queen's TragedyPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Rest in dining room with hot bottle ... Finished Rev 11 in Gr. Testament with Eva.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 11Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Rest in dining room. Greek. Rev 10[.] Dinner 7.30. Signed against drink.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 10Print: BookUnknown
1850-1899'Rest in room and discovered "History of Fair Rosamond".'John Ruskin anonHistory of Fair RosamondPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rested all morning. Read "Times" and rested again after lunch.'Verena Vera Pennefather unknown The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Rested all the afternoon and evening. Read Andromeda.'Verena Vera Pennefather Charles KingsleyAndromedaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Restful week-end. Read a biography of Dick Sheppard. I never heard him preach. Astounded he was so unhappy at school.'Vere Hodgson Charles MatthewsDick Sheppard: Man of PeacePrint: Book
1850-1899'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1800-1849'Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline'Mary Shelley Charlotte SmithEmmeline, or the Orphan of the CastlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Returned Belloc's book on June 4th not got another yet.'Mary Ethel Corry Knocker Hilaire BellocunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Returned from S. Read as I came along a considerable part of "Cotoni Posthuma" which Mr M[anley] lent me.'Joseph Hunter Robert CottonCotoni Postuma: Divers Choice Pieces of the RenownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Returned home to tea & then amused myself for an hour with the second volume of the "Noctis Ambrosianae" which I purchased to day.'John Buckley Castieau John WilsonNoctes AmbrosianaePrint: Book
1800-1849'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the SS Library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me;'Joseph Hunter Samuel Jackson PrattGleanings in EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the [D.S?] library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me.'Joseph Hunter Samuel Jackson PrattGleanings in EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Revised all day and was really sick of it. Got very stale & ended up by reading "Alice in Wonderland"! Much more refreshing than O.T.'Hilary Spalding Lewis CarrollAlice in WonderlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Re[ceived] a parcel from WM this night by the carrier, containing two of Cobbett's & a court calendar, I am glad to hear he is well, I expected that Cobbett's conduct at...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Rhea and his staff are hard at work—Rhea working more particularly at the bacteriology of wounds with special reference to anaërobes ... Jack McCrae looked very fit, but...John Alexander McCrae [medical journals]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'ricordati di Biondetta [...] [the sale of] Newstead--that is a pity--why not have kept it & taken Biondetta there & have livd [sic] and died happy'.Lady Caroline Lamb Jacques CazotteLe diable amoreuxPrint: Book


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