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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'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon' Mary Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeStatesman's Manual, or the Bible the best guide to...Print: Book
1800-1849'finish the lay sermon'.Mary Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeStatesman's Manual, or the Bible the best guide to...Print: Book
1600-1699In the year 1622 he was chosen reader, and read upon the statute 32 H.8, cap 2, concerning lymitations. . . .After the recept of the writreturnable the tearme following h...John Bramston Statute 32 Henry VIII cap. 2 and statute 13 Eliz. ...Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Nathaniel Bishop HarmanStaying the PlaguePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to l...Jane Baillie Welsh Johann Wolfgang von GoetheStellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Charles Causley Olive Higgins ProutyStella DallasPrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Olive Higgins ProutyStella DallasPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'Madame Bodin is a mere Madame. Poor & weak. I read two of her books -- Savinie -- and Stenia, .. which la...Elizabeth Barrett Camille BodinStenia et l'abbe MauricePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Madme Bodin nee Jenny Bastide is neither very pure nor at all powerful [...] "Stenia" did me to the dea...Elizabeth Barrett Jenny Bodin (nee Bastide)Stenia et l'abbe MauricePrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the two copies, especially the grand format, of Crane's biography. Both sizes are very attractively got up. I very well like your fount and the spacing o...Joseph Conrad Thomas BeerStephen Crane: A Study in American Letters with an...Print: Book
1600-1699'So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him reading of the psalmes in short-hand (which he is now bu...Sir William Coventry Thomas CrossSternhold and Hopkins PsalmsPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding Margaret IrwinStill She Wished for CompanyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespeareStockdale's Edition of ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'As for your paper it is charming.'Oscar Wilde J. M. StoddartStoddart's ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'In the year 1655. was published by Mr Web a Booke intituled Stonehenge-restored (but writt by Mr Inigo Jones) which I read with great delight: there is a great deale o...John Aubrey Inigo JonesStonehenge RestoredPrint: Book
1850-1899'?I am reading Ruskin?s "Stones of Venice"with great pleasure. He can [italics] write [end italics] a few, can?t he?'Robert Louis Stevenson John RuskinStones of VenicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney Carlo BottaStoria d'ItaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Carlo BottaStoria d'Italia, continuata da quella del Guicciar...Print: Book
1800-1849'I really wonder at, and am sorry that our tastes differ so much that you do not like Pignotti, though I like him so very much. I have read as far as the beginning of the...Sarah Harriet Burney Lorenzo PignottiStoria della Toscana sino al principatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much interested by Pignotti's history, which [underlined] though I bought [end underlining], I am reading, and have got into the seventh volume. The squabbles and t...Sarah Harriet Burney Lorenzo PignottiStoria della Toscana sino al principatoPrint: Book


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