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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 to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1900-1945'So we lay all day in the rolling swell, fair in the blast of the dried fish; reading John vii, Odyssey xxiv, a mutilated copy of "Middlemarch" and late man pages of the ...Ronald Storrs George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'So we lay all day in the rolling swell, fair in the blast of the dried fish; reading John vii, Odyssey xxiv, a mutilated copy of "Middlemarch" and late man pages of the ...Ronald Storrs The Oxford Book of English VersePrint: Book
1600-1699'So we parted, and I and Mr Creed to Westminster-hall and looked over a book or two, and so to My Lord's...'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So we parted; and I home and to Mr Selden and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1850-1899'so went to the Club. There I glanced over the Weeklies & then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][weekly newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'So you are in correspondence with Mrs piozzi? Enviable Mortal! - Do you know I am, at this present writing, stark staring mad for love [of] her. I have been reading her ...Sarah Harriet Burney Hester Lynch PiozziObservations and Reflections made in the course of...Print: Book
1800-1849'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can appl...George Crabbe George CrabbeLady BarbaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can appl...George Crabbe George CrabbeEllenPrint: Book
1800-1849'So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,-making "Harmonies", poring over the geography,greedily gathering up every thing I could fin...Harriet Martineau New TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'so, when I had praied priuatly & reed a chapter of the testement, I went to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker [ghost stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker [highwayman stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'Soldiers who have been out here 6 months can speak French, and some of the French can speak English perfectly. I can speak just a little French now. In most of the Y.M.C...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'Some "Vie Parisiennes" heartened me, and I needed it, for not one line yet to hand from Europe or Cairo — a cruel and needless privation.'Ronald Storrs La Vie ParisiennePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Some body shewed my Mother the Verses written by Moses Franks upon Mrs Pitt bathing at Brighthelmstone - These says She were written by Moses [italics] uninspired [end i...Hester Maria Salusbury Moses Franks[verses on Mrs Pitt bathing]Unknown


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