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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
 
1800-1849?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, J...Thomas Carter James MontgomeryLectures on poetryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Whisperer or Tales & Speculations" by Gabriel Silvertongue. It was written by J. Montgomery and part of it appeared in "The Iris" in the year 1795. All th...Joseph Hunter James MontgomeryThe Whisperer; or Tales & SpeculationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'A Riddle/which every reader may solve for herself/but none to another' 'I know not who these lines may see/I know not what these lines will be' [ll. 1-2]Julia James MontgomeryA RiddlePrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Lines written by Montgomery on Home' 'There is a spot of earth...'Carey/Maingay groupJames Montgomery[The West Indies] OR 'Home'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'"Mary" At fond sixteen my roving Heart Was pierced by love's delightful Dart, ...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJames MontgomeryHannahUnknown
1800-1849'The Dying Christian' 'Christianity rears its trophies on the tomb, treasure up then these best of stanzas in the heart' 'Spirit--leave thine house of clay!/...' [ll. 11-...Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJames MontgomeryVerses to the Memory of the Late Joseph BrownUnknown
1800-1849'Lift up thine eyes afflicted soul, ... James Montgomery'Bowly groupJames Montgomery'In Bereavement' AND 'Forget-Me-Not'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Thy chains are broken, Africa, be free!...'Bowly groupJames MontgomeryThe West Indies OR 'Thy Chains Are Broken'Unknown
1800-1849'"Hajji Baba" was more read than any other of [James Morier's] works. Sir Walter Scott was especially pleased with it, and remarked that "Hajji Baba" might be termed the ...Walter Scott James MorierHajji BabaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James PartonLife and Times of Aaron Burr, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Parton[Life of Barnum]Print: Book
1900-1945'In the train I read the life of Matthew Bolton and James's indifferent little book on the Houses of Parliament. Very poor illustrations and it costs 15/-.'James Lees-Milne James Pope-HennessyHouses of ParliamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'I’ve read nothing but poetry since I saw you, except one novel, a curious rough sort of book called "Fortuna Chance" by James Prior, the scene laid in Sherwood Fo...William Henry Hudson James PriorFortuna ChancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones James Prior (pseud.)A Walking GentlemanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones James Prior (pseud.)Forest FolkPrint: 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 James Purves-StewartDiagnosis of Nervous DiseasesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and rambles that took up so much of my time, but I would try to overcome my disinclination to serious reading. There we...William Henry Hudson James RennieThe Domestic Habits of BirdsPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes that Coleridge wrote "an extraordinary set of notes ... designed to help [Robert] Southey with a review" into a copy of James Sedgwick, Hints to the P...Samuel Taylor Coleridge James SedgwickHints to the Public and Legislature, on the Nature...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James SedgwickHints to the Public and the Legislature on the nat...Print: Book
1700-1799Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late.Gertrude Savile James ShirleyThe Gratefull Servant. A Comedie...Print: Book


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