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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
 
1900-1945'A few letters are released today. I get my fifth and last - it is from Amy addressed to Nora at 24, Mount Rosie Road and dated July 19th. It contains no new news.'Thomas Kitching [letter]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'A few of the men were reading, and never raised their eyes'prisoners at Coldbath Fields [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and made up my mind to go and listen to him'.Ralph Glasser [n/a][announcement of Einstein talk]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after some talk, he promised to send him a Bible, "his honou...Isaac [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how "divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an...Poor men of Chelmsford New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how 'divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an... New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'A file of Beechworth papers came to hand to-day. By them I see it is intended to hold a Local Exhibition at Beechworth in connection with the Victorian Exhibition to be ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A fine book dearest boy! I've read it several times. There's a breadth, an ease in it which gives one a quite new view of John Galsworthy.The humanity of it is infinit...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityPrint: Book
1850-1899'A fine day. In the Gaol this morning a number of letters were found which were thrown over the wall for a prisoner who was discharged to take away. They were more seri...John Buckley Castieau [convict][letters]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'A fine morning. Recd the Examiner this morning which is soon as can be expected. The times very copious on the approaching funeral of the Duke of York. All the honours p...Robert Sharp n/aThe TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'A fortnight ago, having employed myself in reading White's "Selborne", and being extremely fond of natural history, and, of course, highly delighted with that book, I wa...Sir William Elford Gilbert WhiteSelbornePrint: Book
1900-1945'A fortnight in London in June-July 1940, recuperating from Oxford Univ. Finals, I most clearly remember summer evening as yet undisturbed by bombs, spent reading and cha... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'A Fragment' 'And say when summoned from the world and thee/...' ['The Pleasures of Hope', part one, ll. 239-248. Some changes in punctuation]Carey/Maingay groupThomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'A Fragment' 'When to their airy hall... [printed first line 'When, to their...] 'Byron'Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronA FragmentPrint: UnknownUnknown
'A friend brought me in the last "Quarterly" which I looked at tho' but slightly as yet not being able. There are by far too little variety in it though I think some of t...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'a friend of mine read in the paper that some people had recently left Italy for America. She says they are the Italian Royal Family and that they are getting out of I... newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'A Gentleman - one Mr Martin a Surgeon - was reproving his Son for relating some Story of a Gentleman's Marriage which he had read in the Newspaper & quoted from Thence a... [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'A gentleman who deems himself libelled at in the Wake has sent a long poem to Edin. to be printed [italics] in quarto [end italics] which he denominates [italics] The Ho...James Hogg John MorrisonHoggiad, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A good many English here. We stare and are silent, following the manners of our own race. Don Quixote and walking are my only friends.'John Masefield Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be better or it will be the last. There is I see Flibbertig...Sydney Smith Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book


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