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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'A great Article was published in the Age newspaper this morning upon Prison labor this time the Castlemaine Gaol was commented upon'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A great sensation in the Herald of this evening. In a fit of jealousy, a Mr Cook shot a Mrs Moss through the heart & then blew his own head nearly off.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'a greater mixture of very good & very bad that I remember to have read — great occasional beauty of thought & language, greater still in the delineation of charact...G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Charlotte BrontëVilettePrint: Book
1850-1899'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really "that's me"!'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'A grim account of the menage [at Theodore Watts-Dunton's home The Pines, Putney, where the poet Swinburne went to live after his health failed] was given to the poet Wil...Theodore Watts-Dunton Theodore Watts-DuntonpoemsUnknown
1850-1899'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible death of Mrs Skewton in Dickens' abominable "Dombey".'John Ruskin Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1900-1945'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.", and a Times reader likes reading the Women's page. Another Chronicle reader aged 64 l... ChroniclePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.", and a Times reader likes reading the Women's page. Another Chronicle reader aged 64 l... TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.", and a Times reader likes reading the Women's page. Another Chronicle reader aged 64 l... ChroniclePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The Life of Mansie Wauch (1828): "I literally devoured it...a Scottish joiner's son David MoirThe Life of Mansie WauchPrint: Book
1900-1945'A lady I know well was sitting by the fire one evening. She wanted something to read so she reached out a hand to the bookcase by her side and took out a book at random....Humbert WolfThe Uncelestial CityPrint: Book
1700-1799'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question of why the St Kildans always got a cold when visited...Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St Kilda Print: Book
1700-1799'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question of why the St Kildans always got a cold when visited...Reverend Christian Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St Kilda Print: Book
1850-1899'A leading article appeared in the Argus of this morning lauding the management of Dunedin Gaol & calling attention to a report of the Governer that the Gaol was more tha...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A letter and package of "New Statesman" and "Times Lit. Supp” came from Mrs. Palmer.' Edmund Blunden New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A letter and package of "New Statesman" and "Times Lit. Supp” came from Mrs. Palmer.' Edmund Blunden Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'A letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel Barrett tells of a sixty-year-old woman who believed that her morals had been injured by reading "Aurora Leigh" ...' Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899'A letter from H.W. Jones resigning membership in the Club was read'Alfred Rawlings H.W. Jones[letter resigning from XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'A letter from Miss Ethel C. Stevens offering to entertain the Book Club for the Sept meeting was read'Ernest E. Unwin Ethel C. Stevens[letter to XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'A letter from Mrs Stansfield was read inviting the club to 29 Upper Redlands Rd for the next meeting'.Ernest E. Unwin Pattie Stansfield[letter to the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter


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