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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'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with attentino from beginning to end. To me it was full of ...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Walter ScottLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1600-1699'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church settled, the old women had like to have killed the ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Kingdom IntelligencePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early English Romances, and their common interests drew them into close and friend...Walter Scott George EllisSpecimens of the Early English PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early English Romances, and their common interests drew them into close and friend...Walter Scott George EllisSpecimens of Early English RomancesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and romance. I can well remember the time when, a mere ...William Henry Hudson Sir Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and romance. I can well remember the time when, a mere ...William Henry Hudson Sir Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Scribbled away for some hours at the Article I was writing. Altered the whole of the Introduction & then let Polly read the Paper. She approved & I felt a little excited...Polly Castieau John Buckley Castieau[article]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Scriptures and Natural history readings'.John Cole BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Scroggs came back from Pontorson by train, but I rode, [bicycle] and thereby saved 3 francs 50 cent. Another 50 cent. and I will have paid for my Ruskins. I like his ...Thomas Edward Lawrence John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor - and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments are none of the newest.'Walter Scott Samuel FooteThe Maid of BathUnknown
1800-1849'search Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving, I think, to be more talked of'William Windham Oliver GoldsmithThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Search in Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving [I] think, to be more talked of'William Windham William BlackstoneCommentaries on the laws of England [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of Cheltenham".'John Ruskin [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'See No. 571, last page; an article, called Sir Claude the Conqueror ... The story in question, by the by, was a last chance given to its drunken author; not Villiers - t...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter VilliersSir Claude the Conqueror (in Young Folks)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Seebohm has nothing about this chucking cry or call [of a species of snipe], nor has Shaw in his book on the snipe in the Fur and Feather series. I doubt if any of...William Henry Hudson L. H. de V. ShawSnipe and WoodcockPrint: Book
1900-1945'Seebohm has nothing about this chucking cry or call [of a species of snipe], nor has Shaw in his book on the snipe in the Fur and Feather series. I doubt if any of t...William Henry Hudson Henry SeebohmHistory of British BirdsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Seeing the Bible on the table, I took it up & by his desire, read the whole history of Joseph. In parts of it he pointed out several fine subjects for pictures.'William Upcott n/aBiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Seely came to luncheon yesterday and talked nonsense. He wasted a good deal of our time ... I am reading a book called W.O.2. Not about the war office.'Maurice Baring Maurice DrakeW.O.2Print: Book
1850-1899'Seemed to dread going to bed, everything smelling hot & stuffy, laid down for a time on the sofa, then got up & read till I was tired then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown


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