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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'The paper boy came outside the lines soon after breakfast and there in the Mail was my name "mentioned in dispatches." I couldn't help feeling delighted.'Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The paper very full of Sir W. Robertson's resignation though the reason and details are still a mystery. The most remarkable news was that Germany has declared war again...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson unknownPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The paper which should have been here yesterday arrived today, so that there were two this morning... I see by the Rockingham that the last voyage of the Steam Packets f...Robert Sharp n/aRockingham and Hull Weekly AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'the papers announce the death of the King of Wurtemberg'.Benjamin Newton n/a[newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The papers announce the Marriage of the Rev: Edward Bather, Rector of some place in Shropshire to a Miss Emma Halifax.'Jane Austen newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The papers are eagerly read, of course, and small groups constantly gather outside the newspaper offices to read the cablegrams which are also put up for passers-by to s...unknown unknownunknownPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The papers are sent to me very regularly by the kind Shuldhams, and I read them with indescribable eagerness; but they take away my spirits for the rest of the day. The ...Sarah Harriet Burney [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Papers this morning contained a Telegram stating that Mr Charles Smyth the Acting Judge showed great strangeness of manner on the Bench'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them. - [italics] ...Papillon FamilyJames and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them. - [italics] ...Eleanor Papillon James and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'The parable of the talents was one of the first passages in the New Testament that attracted my serious attention'.Elizabeth Hamilton [New testament]Print: Book
1700-1799'The part of your "Dictionary" which you have favoured me with the sight of has given me such an idea of the whole, that I most sincerely congratulate the publick upon th...Thomas Birch Samuel JohnsonDictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The parties of Proust gain in fantasy from being read in such circumstances, (I don't mean in the bath, but on deck;) they recede, achieve a perspective; they become his...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The past few months have been a new world [...] the age that has gone by since I read Young’s “Night Thoughts” in the dugout at Cuinchy. And, now I think of it, I forgot...Edmund Blunden Edward YoungThe Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,...Print: Book
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...John Heylin Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...Mrs Heylin Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...Miss Cheyne Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...John Freke Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...Edward Young Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...Colley Cibber Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version


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