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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'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Harry & I read for a long time together. Harry is beginning to understand what he reads & takes a fair part in Dialogue Reading.'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [n/a][dialogue]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that it would appear from the conduct of the House as if...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope "that would cure the cold I g...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope "that would cure the cold I g...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Letter to Barbara Leigh Smith from Bessie Raynor Parkes, 19 March 1856: 'What shall I say about Goethe? When I have done it I shall write to Marian - I don't see the self...Bessie Raynor Parkes George Henry LewesLife of GoethePrint: Book
1850-1899'The greatest pleasure I have lately had has been the perusal of the 2 last volumes of Froude's Carlyle.'Henry James James Anthony FroudeThomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London, 1Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this pro...Margaret Oliphant Horatio Forbes BrownJohn Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled fromPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Robinson's journal of Oct 7 1854, reprinted in the Times June 15 1856: '..we sat and read Athenaums aloud, chatting meanwhile. There was something unusual in his man...Mrs Robinson [n/a]AthenaumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Louis and I have begun reading "Westward Ho!" together [...] He reads to me every day out of "Westward Ho!" which I think very beautiful and interesting'Alice Maud Mary or "Princess Alice" Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening played Bezique with Polly & read Shakespeare with Harry.'John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'On the day that the bloody battle of Gravellote was fought [August 18, 1870] they [Hardy and Emma] were reading Tennyson in the grounds of the rectory.'Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma GiffordAlfred Tennyson[Unknown - Poetry]Unknown
1850-1899'During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Jukes, the "Horae Apocalypticae" of a Mr. Elliott. This ...Edmund Gosse Bishop Edward ElliottHorae ApocalypticaePrint: Book


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