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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
 
1700-1799'To amuse myself during this solitary journey I got Cumberland's "Henry" (then a new publication)... Wishing to reach Maidstone in good time on the follow'g day I ordered...John Marsh Richard CumberlandHenryPrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...John Marsh Ann RadcliffeA Sicilian RomancePrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...Elizabeth Marsh William JacksonThirty letters on various subjectsPrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...John Marsh Carl Philipp MoritzTravels of a German through England in 1782Print: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...John Marsh Carl Philipp MoritzTravels of a German through England in 1782Print: Book
1700-1799'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that have already been published, as every one has been ...Joseph Banks [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'To bunk about 8.0. Reading.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finished reading Book I of "Golden Treasury". Sisters and ...William Soutar Aldington[brochure on Lawrence]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finished reading Book I of "Golden Treasury". Sisters and ...William Soutar [unknown]Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Instantly Rogers was summoned to Melbourne House, where ...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1600-1699'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home but I never read it before, and now like it pretty w...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [Wild]Iter borealePrint: Book
1600-1699'To church in the afternoon. And after sermon took Tom. Fuller's "Church History" and read over Henry the 8ths life - in it. And so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1900-1945'To Cinema with girl in afternoon, quite good fun. Back at 6.15. Read and smoked and talked in evening.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'To conclude some 15 sonnets were read & recited by members & much enjoyed'members of XII Book Club [sonnets]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'To console myself, I concluded, I had been re-reading one of our favourite fragments from W. E. Henley's "Bric-a-Brac":Vera Brittain W. E. HenleyBric-a-BracPrint: Book
1850-1899'To counteract [Sunday School pupils' imitating bad deeds of children in children's storybooks] ... [M. C.] Mondy read the same books "and gave the early part of the afte...M. C. Mondy storiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'To Fanny' 'Oh! Name him not unless it be/...' 'T Haynes Bayly'Carey/Maingay groupNathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly'The Forsaken to her Father'Print: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'To fill up this rather mixed letter I will give you a sketch of one of my days here. I wake at 7. and get up at 7.30. At eight I take "petit dejuner", and after insp...Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'To Fortune' 'I care not fortune what you deny me, ... J. Thompson'Beanlands groupJames ThomsonThe Castle of Otranto OR To FortuneUnknown


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