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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
 
1850-1899BL edition inscribed 'Victoria of Prussia' and initialled page after page with some dates presumeably showing when read to. Earliest date 5th August 1871 lesson 1, Lesso...Victoria of Prussia [unknown]The Peep of Day; or a series of the earliest religPrint: Book
1850-1899In the BL copy: Written in margin of "Paper: Its Applications and its Novelties" p16 'In 1853 the sum of #4000 was at last paid to Mr Archer for his process -- and stamps...George DoddCuriosities of IndustryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Coming home I purchased The Australasian & the Leader. I bought "the Leader" because it contained the commencement of Mr Yellow Plush's experiences in Australia. I do no...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most novels & served to amuse me very well to-day. If it h...John Buckley Castieau Oliver Wendell HolmesGuardian AngelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Between five & six Polly came down stairs & then I went off to the Athenaeum & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'When I came home I found Charley Gee engaged with our youngsters singing comic songs & making himself otherwise entertaining, the children enjoyed his company very much ...John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most novels & served to amuse me very well to-day. If it h...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three games of cribbage with Polly'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum where I read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained nothing but accounts of meetings and conferences, an...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Christian WorldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant divine and a Roman Catholic priest some time about the...Edwin Muir [unknown][volume about theological debate]Print: Book
1850-1899'There was a novel about young women, which I think now must have been "Sense and Sensibility": I could make nothing of it, but this did not keep me from reading it.'Edwin Muir Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1850-1899'And the monthly parts of "The Scots Worthies" which my father had carried with him from Sanday, and which were now in hopeless confusion, I went over carefully, arrangin...Edwin Muir John HowieThe Scots WorthiesPrint: Serial / periodical, bound by father into a volume
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [unknown][school books]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [n/a]The People's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [n/a]The People's FriendPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Christian HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [unknown]Sunday StoriesPrint: Serial / periodical


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