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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'came back to Beechworth saw all was right in the Gaol, and sat down quietly to read a Book.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'The evening was remarkably wet and there was no alternative but to stay at home. I read a little smoked a little drank a little thought a little and then saw all was ri...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899?I send you L. Stephen?s letter, which is certainly very kind and jolly to get. Please show it, if you get a chance, to Mrs Sitwell.' Robert Louis Stevenson Leslie StephenletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?You can tell Lang this. I heard from him, and will answer soon.?Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew LangletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?Your letter came this morning. I own I am troubled about its contents: I fear for your health, dear friend, in such an ordeal as that to which you propose to subject you...Robert Louis Stevenson Frances SitwellletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?I am doing principally my Roman Law just now. It is really to me a great pleasure; and it keeps me out of the way of writing, for which I am not in the vein.? Robert Louis Stevenson unknownRoman LawPrint: Book
1850-1899?Morley has accepted the "Fables" and I have seen it in proof and think less of it than ever.? Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson"On Lord Lytton's Fables in Song"Manuscript: Sheet, Proof of the article
1850-1899'I am reading Herbert Spencer just now very hard.'Robert Louis Stevenson Herbert SpencerunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you remember the knocking in Macbeth? ...The porter is a man I have a great respect for. He had a great command of language. All that he says, curiously enough, my mo...Mrs Stevenson William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you yet seen Middlemarch? You would not be quite so unsophisticated a visitor to Rome as Miss Brooke.'Robert Louis Stevenson George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have had all things considered and thanks principally to Philip, a very passable Christmas day [...] then went upstairs and read Phillip till lunchtime (you see I adhe...Robert Louis Stevenson William Makepeace ThackerayThe Adventures of PhilipPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Came back by the half past one train [from?] Town, after buying "Sarah Barnham" at [the?] Station. Amused myself by reading her very strange history as related by her bi...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Sarah BarnhamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bought the Evening Herald. There was not much in it excepting an account of the injury done to one of the Turret guns of the Cerberus when she was lately firing shell fo...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Stayed up late reading & smoking'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Then there is Mr Brand's lantern and his Highland cloak; and the tale of how he, John Brand, right royally attired in the garb of old Gaul, presented a nosegay of roses ...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry ErskineThe Garb of Old GaulPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'You may be interested to hear that the Miss Jaffrays are reading: having only eyes and not a 'pair of patent double magnifying microscopes' (or whatever it was that dear...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensPickwick Papers Chapter 34Print: Book
1850-1899'I cannot tell you what they [the Miss Jaffrays] are reading. Perhaps Queechy ...'Misses Jaffray Elizabeth (Susan) Wetherell (Warner)QueechyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown - novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'Part III is 'the reconciliation', in Spencer's phrase, - a mean term between I and II, a minimistic retrospect on both.'Robert Louis Stevenson Herbert SpencerA System of Synthetic PhilosophyPrint: Book


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