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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
 
1850-1899'Stayed at home this evening & did nothing else but read. Mrs Robertson stayed till about eight o'clock but I did not see much of her as she & Polly left me in the dining...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed at home this evening. Read a little to the children'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed for some time at the Athenaeum reading through the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Stayed home all the evening. Amused myself reading until ten o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. Fr...John Ruskin [n/a]WorldPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. Fr...John Ruskin Octave FeuilletLa Petite ComtessePrint: Book
1850-1899'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. Fr...John Ruskin G. Baker[Gladstone]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed talking with Sissy, Walter & Harry. Read to them for a little while & then looked over Harry's sums'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed up late reading & smoking'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Stayed up reading H. V. Morton's Women of the Bible. Loved the chapter on 'Ruth, Martha and Mary'. Always inclined to Martha myself.'Vere Hodgson Henry Vollam MortonWomen of the BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado keeping myself from laying out money there'Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book
1700-1799'Staying at a house in Kings Thorpe, Northamptonshire in 1780, Anna began reading "Les milles et une nuits" after a conversation about imaginative literature with the Bis...Anna Larpent Les mille et une nuitsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Staying for a fortnight with Miss Heath Jones in Cornwall - where I read aloud to her a large selection of the works of Bernard Shaw, including the newly published "Back...Vera Brittain George Bernard ShawBack to MethuselahPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Shandy [end italics] said "our armies swore terribly in...Albert John Martin Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945'Steeped in the fiction of the last century ("I was singularly ill read in fiction published in the twentieth century", she admitted. "I thought of nineteenth century lit...Rosamond Lehmann [nineteenth century fiction by women]Print: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Bible, thePrint: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Walter Scott Print: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Alfred, Lord Tennyson Print: Book


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