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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
 
1600-1699'So home, and my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of Warr, which is excellent reading; and perticularly I was mightily pleased this night in what we read about ...Elizabeth Pepys Sir Robert CottonAn answer to such motives as were offer'd by certa...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of "The Rivall Ladys", and find it a very pretty play.'Samuel Pepys John DrydenThe Rival LadysPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home, and there to my chamber and got my wife to read to me a little'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'so home, my wife to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes"; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys William DavenantThe siege of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home, reading all the way a good book;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bit...Samuel Pepys Fields[petition]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bit...Sir William Penn Fields[petition]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of "Hydrostatickes", which is a most excellent book as ever I read; and I will take much pains to understan...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So I made Gosnell [sing] and we sat up, looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how the time went; and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys PlayfordDancing Master OR English Dancing MasterPrint: Book
1900-1945'So I turned, as often, for help and advice to Mrs.Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte", which Winifred and I had read and admired together.'Vera Brittain Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1900-1945'So I will only tell you that the 1st instalment of the novel ["The Holy Mountain"] is brilliantly effective.'Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Holy MountainPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson [Brothers] Grimm[Fairy Tales]Print: Book
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson Joan O'NeillThe Daisy ChainPrint: Book
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson M.L. MolesworthCuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson M.L. MolesworthCarrotsPrint: Book
1850-1899'So it is you who send me the "Pall Mall"! I shall read it with yet more pleasure now I know... It is a very instructive and interesting paper - so unl...Harriet Martineau [n/a]Pall Mall Gazette, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'So it was you that sent me "Miss Berry"! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much as I do; but nobody I see had any clear idea of that...Harriet Martineau Theresa LewisExtracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Mis...Print: Book


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