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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'To the Great Pyramid' 'Mountain of art!... [transcript of text] 'From the [Cheltenham] Chronicle Feb 7th 1833'Emma Bowly Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucester AdvertiserPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'To the Great Pyramid' Mountain of Art! Sublime Mysterious Pile!, ... From the Cheltenham Chronicle Feb 7 1833'Bowly group [n/a]The Cheltenham ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'To the hall, and there find the boy's verses "De peste"; it being their custom to make verses at Shrovetide. I read several, and very good they were, and better I think ...Samuel Pepys [boys in the upper forms at Eaton] De pests [Bacchus verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'to the London Library where I looked through Selden's "Titles of Honour"'George Eliot [pseud] John SeldenTitles of HonourPrint: Book
1900-1945'To the Poolites each week comes a packet containing two Pool coupons (one to pass on to a friend) and the current issue of "Littlewood's Sports Log", which is very inter... Littlewood's Sports LogPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so I read over the whole ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Book of TobitPrint: Book
1800-1849'To Time' 'In Fancy's eye, what an extended span / ...' 'Clare'E.E.R. John Clare'Address to Time' from The Village MinstrelPrint: Book
1900-1945'To wander into bookland — I'm very much engrossed in the "Cambridge Ancient History" which certainly is a very remarkable achievement. Its first two volumes have g...Gertrude Bell J. B. Bury, S. A. Cook, F. E. Adcock.The Cambridge Ancient HistoryPrint: Book
1600-1699'To Westminster-hall and bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queene. Which I read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ that we did nothing but lau...Samuel Pepys John DaunceyThe history of the thrice illustrious Princess Hen...Print: Book
1900-1945'To-day I ... prepare myself for leaving England. I read, whilst [here] the "Ingoldsby Legends" entire, Second Part "King Henry IV," and more cursorily "Midsummer ...Wainwight Merrill Richard Harris BarhamIngoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1900-1945'To-day I ... prepare myself for leaving England. I read, whilst [here] the "Ingoldsby Legends" entire, Second Part "King Henry IV," and more cursorily "Midsummer ...Wainwight Merrill William Shakespeare1 Henry IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'To-day I ... prepare myself for leaving England. I read, whilst [here] the "Ingoldsby Legends" entire, Second Part "King Henry IV," and more cursorily "Midsummer ...Wainwight Merrill William Shakespeare2 Henry IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'To-day I ... prepare myself for leaving England. I read, whilst [here] the "Ingoldsby Legends" entire, Second Part "King Henry IV," and more cursorily "Midsummer ...Wainwight Merrill William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'To... ...' 'There are who strangely love to roam/And find in wildest haunts their home/...' ['Home' ll. 13-22]Margaret Maingay [probably] Josiah ConderHomePrint: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Today has been uneventful and we go into new trenches at 9.30 tonight. It is one mass of mud here now but will soon dry up with the sun. We shall be six days in th...Arthur Oscar Hornung Jules VerneMichael Strogoff: The Courier of the CzarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".'Hilary Spalding Angela ThirkellHeadmistress, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".'Hilary Spalding unknownPeople's Government, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Today I bought and read Aldous Huxley's essay Vulgarity in Literature. It's a surprisingly powerful thing, one of those treats in reading, of which our modern authors ne...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell Aldous HuxleyVulgarity in LiteraturePrint: Pamphlet


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