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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'Ride to Pisa - Keats' poems'Mary Shelley John KeatsLamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and other poe...Print: Book
1800-1849'Ripon Ball [...] The papers full of the trial of and acquital of Hone who defended himself very ingeniously on his being indicted ex officio by the Atorney General for a...Benjamin Newton n/a'The newspapers'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Rise - talk and read Corinne' / 'nurse the baby and read Corinne'Mary Godwin Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelCorinne, ou d'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849'Rise very late. Read in the "female revolutionary Plutarch"'.Mary Godwin StewartonFemale Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biograph...Print: Book
1600-1699'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "restless fancy, then made more susceptible of any impr...Robert Boyle Garci Rodriguez de MontalvoAmadis de GaulePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi...Robert Collyer Oliver GoldsmithHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi...Robert Collyer Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi...Robert Collyer John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi...Robert Collyer Oliver GoldsmithHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert Colyer, who rose to become a celebrated Unitarian minister, deliberately chose to dwell upon the moment when, as a child labourer in a Fewston linen factory, he b...Robert Collyer The History of Whittington and his CatPrint: Book
1900-1945'Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive. A few full of promise and real beauty. He oughtn't to publish yet.'Siegfried Sassoon Robert Graves Unknown
1800-1849'Robert has in several instances spoiled the effect of the tales at the close by winding them too abruptly up The Marvellous Doctor is quite ruined for though previously ...James Hogg James HoggShepherd's Calendar, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Robert Macpherson came down with us to Civita Vecchia to see us off, and, I remember, read to me all the way there a story he had written, one of the stories flying abou...Robert Macpherson Robert Macpherson Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Robert Southey on "The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson" in letter to C. W. Williams Wynn, 27 November 1804: "Richardson's correspondence I should think worse than an...Robert Southey Samuel RichardsonThe Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selecti...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Robert Story [...] read his first real book, Watts' "Divine Songs for Children", with "my heart burning and with secret rapture"'. Robert Story Isaac WattsDivine Songs for ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White John Keats Print: Book
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White George Gordon Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book


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