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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'I stayed at Home the whole day & read "John Bull & his island"'John Buckley Castieau Max O'RellJohn Bull and his islandPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Awoke early & as it was too soon to get up read for an hour in bed. Did not go to town to-day, read & wrote in the morning'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to bed after reading for a long while'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the character is in the main true was shown to me strang...anon. Elizabeth Missing SewellKatherine AshtonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's in actuality, have helped me more than any sermon. So...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Robert SoutheyLife and Correspondence of Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exagg...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell J.W. KayeLife and correspondence of Charles, Lord MetcalfePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles KingsleyHypatia - or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Edward Bouverie Pusey[Sermons]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][pamphlets and magazines]Print: Pamphlet, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Mrs Meyrick Charles KingsleyHypatia or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1850-1899'There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this "Macmillan".'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinThe Shadow of Death
1850-1899'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near here "[italics] D.V. Thomas [end italics], Purveyor of...Robert Louis Stevenson D.V. ThomasadvertisementUnknown
1850-1899'Bought ["Life of Sarah Barnham"?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes the great actress out to be little better than a beas...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Sarah BarnhamPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wrote up my Diary & read in the evening'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
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
1850-1899'I [...] was singing after my own fashion "Du hast diamentem und Perlen"[...]'Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich HeineDu hast Diamenten und PerlenPrint: song
1850-1899'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from the difficulties of the English language. He gave the ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical


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