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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'Stopped at home during the evening. Butler paid me a visit & read one or two capital speeches from Phillip's life of Curran.'John Buckley Castieau W.H. CurranLife of J.P. CurranPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stopped at Home in the evening and read Rob Roy to Polly.'John Buckley Castieau Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Story of Lancashire cotton famine[/]American War'Sarah Good Jessie FothergillProbation: A NovelPrint: Book
1700-1799'Strabo calls Carthage forty miles in circuit.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu StraboGeographicaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Wonderful VisitPrint: Book
1850-1899'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Time MachinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Stolen Bacillus and Other IncidentsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Strangely, instead of Plato, took up "Lady Audley's Secret" this morning.'John Ruskin Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1800-1849'Stranger! If e'er thine ardent... Lord of the Isles 4th canto'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lord of the IslesUnknown
1800-1849'Stranger! if e'er thine ardent...' [transcript of text] 'Lord of the Isles 14th Canto'Emma Bowly Walter ScottThe Lord of the IslesUnknown
1850-1899'Streets of Montargis. Boulevard (if you please) de Belles Manières; streets of the Five Bridegrooms, the Ancient Palace, the Good William, the dead, of God’s Oven...Robert Louis Stevenson  Print: Streetname plaques
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [?of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs John Richard GreenA A Short History of the English People Print: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [?of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [?of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs John RuskinunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs The Oxford Book of English VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs HoraceunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong East wind and no flying.
Read and smoked all day.'		Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Strong [westerly] wind ... in morning. 3 E.A. [enemy aircraft] seen which hove off at once — both my guns froze up hard.
Read in afternoon and evening.'		Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .'Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Robert Bulwer-LyttonFables in SongUnknown
1900-1945'Subsequently I recieved a curiously worded scroll addressed to "Our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell." This document would hardly find favour with the advoc...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][To our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitch...Manuscript: Sheet


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