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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'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford anon[superstitious doctoring book]Print: Book
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford Edward CockerCocker's Arithmetic, being a Plain and Easy Method...Print: Book
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford anonAn account of the Apparition of the Laird of CoolPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford anonSome account of the disturbances at GlenlucePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'?I am reading Ruskin?s "Stones of Venice"with great pleasure. He can [italics] write [end italics] a few, can?t he?'Robert Louis Stevenson John RuskinStones of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more types in the same style; and when I have the lot , I?...Robert Louis Stevenson Katharine de MattosunknownManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1700-1799'A 28-line transcription in Wordsworth's hand appears in the Alfoxden Notebook (Dove Cottage MS 14) of a quotation from Richard Payne Knight's The Progress of Civil Socie...William Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightProgress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, TheUnknown
1600-1699'a Bible lying near her, she took it up, and opened it in the presence of the Company, who observing what place it was openend at, they found it to be the seventeenth ...Sarah Bower GospelPrint: Book
1850-1899'A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spoken as the copy-book was handed in. The prison-tutor ...anon [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799'A book I have a high opinion of'Frances Hamilton Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1700-1799'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Paterson, was mentioned. Johnson said, this book was in ...Samuel Johnson Samuel PatersonAnother Traveller: or Cursory Remarks and Critical...Print: Book
1700-1799'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Paterson, was mentioned. Johnson said, this book was in ...Samuel Johnson Laurence SterneSentimental Journey, APrint: Book
1700-1799'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Paterson, was mentioned. Johnson said, this book was in ...Samuel Johnson Thomas CoryatCoryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Mone...Print: Book
1800-1849'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of ...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown][review of Pierre Jouhaud, "Paris dans le dix-neuv...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of ...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown][review of Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Catteau-Callevill...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A boy thrust a "Star" into my hand, and, shivering with cold in the hot sunshine, I made myself read it.'Vera Brittain the 'Star' newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A capital review of Inland Voyage in the New York Critic for June 2nd.'Robert Louis Stevenson [review of "Inland Voyage" in the "New York Critic...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A chapter we read this morning tendered my spirit and raised it in aspirations to the God of my help. Describing by what a minister ought to prove himself a minister of ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]2 CorinthiansPrint: Book
1800-1849'a circumstance occurd which nearly stopd me from writing even for my own amusement borrowing a school book of a companion, having some entertaining things in it both i...John Clare Daniel FenningThe universal spelling-book: or, a new and easy gu...Print: Book
1900-1945'A clean table and proper lighting make me solider, I find. Tonight I have swept all the rubbish off my board and read some of Oedipus Tyrannus with only the lamp and two...Edward Morgan Forster Sophocles Oedipus TyrannusPrint: Book


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