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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'Sismondi - B.[occaccio] - S. reads A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'Mary Shelley Jean-Charles-L?onard Simonde de SismondiHistoire des r?publiques italiennes du moyen ?gePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'Mary Shelley Francesco Petrarch[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'Percy Bysshe Shelley John GilliesHistory of Ancient Greece, its colonies and conque...Print: Book
1900-1945'Sister Edith remains and kindly helped me wind pink wool at night Read "what I found out" so long that I could not read any more!! so May hunted up wool for me to knit.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Alice Muriel WilliamsonWhat I Found Out in the House of a German PrincePrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899'six months later I read the following announcement in the "Daily Chronicle": "Yesterday a smart and well-dressed young man named L. F. H. S. was charged before the Lord ...anon [n/a]Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Six weeks since I received your letter! ... I have no great interest in the theory of our sacred art.'Arnold Bennett George SturtletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Sketch from Real Life / Alaric A. Watts' [transcript of poem]Mary Groom Alaric A. WattsSketch From Real LifeUnknown
1900-1945'Sketched and read all day. Leg rather sore — did not dash about much.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Sketched till 10.45, & then went to the Captain's Cabin, where the P.M.O. gave us a long lecture on diseases. Lunch at 12.0, & afterwards I read in the Gun Room ti...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1800-1849'Sleep at Bologna - S. reads 4th Canto aloud to me - read Montaigne'Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'Slept all morning, then read quite a lot of "Utopia" in afternoon, & really it is very interesting (once you get over the spelling), & he had some very advanced ideas.'Hilary Spalding Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Slept well, and read grand book - "Darkness and Dawn" at coffee time.'John Ruskin anonDarkness and Dawn: the peaceful birth of a new agePrint: Book
1850-1899'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and "Ayrshire Post" (Report of Ayrshire Film Society, Dr... Glasgow HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and "Ayrshire Post" (Report of Ayrshire Film Society, Dr... [n/a]Ayrshire PostPrint: Newspaper
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1800-1849		'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story for the first time. It is one of those pleasures whic...Maria Edgeworth Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit...Benjamin Newton Sir John SinclairThe Code of AgriculturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit...Benjamin Newton Bede[The Ecclesiastical History]Print: Book
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J.Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quite...Benjamin Newton Samuel PeggeAnecdotes of the English languagePrint: Book
1900-1945'Snow was falling ... and there was no chance of getting out to the terrace, so that the rest of the day had to be devoted to Poker and Bridge, games of which we were all...Ian Vivian Hay unknown unknownunknownManuscript: SheetUnknown


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