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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'Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterManuscript: Codex, editor's note: an illuminated manuscript belonging to Ruskin
1850-1899'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterManuscript: Codex
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Thomas BrownePseudodoxia Epidemica: or Enquries into very many ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Adolph Carl August EschenmayerPsychologie in drei TheilenPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Brief notes on the front flyleaf, and some marginal notes in English and French throughout.Vernon Lee Camille BellaiguePsychologie musicalePrint: Book
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul William MacDougallPsychologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul F.A. ServantePsychology of the BoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'When looking at Hacker's "Annunciation" I was especially attracted by the water-pot, and said as much in my letter to L-. Afterwards, from Jung, I learned how much symbo...William Soutar C.J. JungPsychology of the UnconsciousPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Jean Jacques L'HermittePsychoneuroses of War, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....Charles Spencer Chaplin Sigmund FreudPsychoneurosisPrint: Book
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: Robert Alexander: "[the prisoner] brought a saw to pawn... I lent him 2s upon it; the next morning I ...Robert Alexander Public AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"Face" is one of his favourite books; so there. He simply loves it. Also your book on your father.'Harry Grant Harold NicolsonPublic FacesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame school teacher, 'as to be able to make out the contents ...Joseph Gutteridge public house and shop signsManuscript: Signboard
1900-1945'I have read the four PIL which we have had. They seem to give all the information required accurately and clearly, but sometimes they have tried to put things too cl... Ministry of Informationpublic information leafletsPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in "Public Opinion", one especially which lamented the...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Public OpinionPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's late new book against Solitude, in which I do not f...Samuel Pepys John EvelynPublick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's ...Print: Book
1600-1699'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy...Samuel Pepys John EvelynPublick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's ...Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'Of Dodsley's "Publick Virtue, a Poem", he said, "It was fine blank (meaning to express his usual co...Samuel Johnson Robert DodsleyPublick Virtue, a PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her as long as I can, because she is a Woman, & because ...Jane Austen Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttelpublished letter about the status of her marriage ...Print: Newspaper


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